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bias

[bahy-uhs] / ˈbaΙͺ Ι™s /


NOUN
diagonal weave of fabric
Synonyms
VERB
cause to favor
Synonyms
Antonyms
STRONGEST
STRONG
WEAK
be fair be impartial be just


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The board, to set be established within 180 days of closing, will have authority to resolve disputes between journalists and management over alleged violations of editorial standards, including reporting bias and fairness.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 1, 2026

Wall Street analysts are often accused of having a bullish bias, but their ratings for hard-hit stocks can sometimes offer a helpful starting point.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 29, 2026

The studies varied in quality, but the team assessed the risk of bias and the certainty of the evidence using established research methods.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 21, 2026

The bias for prices could remain bullish as long as Brent remains around $109 a barrel and WTI above $106 a barrel, he says.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 16, 2026

A reliance on artefacts will thus bias an account of ancient hunter-gatherer life.

From "Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind" by Yuval Noah Harari

Oblivious to her own biases about who Leo is and why, Mallory poses as a therapist keen on saving his life, but uses their faux sessions to mine his story for literary gold.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 15, 2026

One human rights concern raised in recent years is that AI can display biases against particular groups if trained on large datasets scraped from the internet which can include racist, sexist and other undesirable material.

From BBC ● Sep. 14, 2026

But all inevitably carry their own biases, and none have the intimate understanding, sustained commitment or enduring responsibility that parents have for their children.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 13, 2026

Like our atavistic cravings for fat and sugar, many cognitive biases also may have made more sense in an earlier environment—what Mr. Jones calls “time-shifted rationality.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 24, 2026

He could not help but be infected by the same biases.

From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela

However, those associations have generally been modest, and scientists have not been sure whether biased attention contributes to depression or develops because of it.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 29, 2026

As the son of a football coach, I’m admittedly biased.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 3, 2026

Researchers say that skewed ratio may be self-perpetuating: Because more boys are thought to have autism, diagnostic tools are biased toward boys’ autistic traits.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 26, 2026

As a Kiwi, I'm biased - but clearly Liam Lawson's been performing at Racing Bulls so far this year, and he's currently 'best of the rest' in the driver standings.

From BBC ● Aug. 11, 2026

We suspected that we had not made this error, but our judgment conceivably might be biased by the biological advantages of complementary DNA molecules.

From "Double Helix" by James D. Watson

I could not have been biassed an instant by those who know not how to appreciate her.

From The Wanderer (Volume 4 of 5) or, Female Difficulties by Fanny Burney

Shallow, superficial and paradoxical inquiries are mere empty vanities as utterly useless, from a human standpoint, as those which are biassed and one-sided.

From Islam Her Moral And Spiritual Value A Rational And Pyschological Study by Arthur Glyn Leonard

As minds are differently biassed, this fact will be differently judged.

From Ti-Ping Tien-Kwoh The History of the Ti-Ping Revolution (Volume I) by Augustus F. Lindley

Then she returned to England, virulent against her brother William, 'whose kindness to her,' says Horace Walpole, no biassed witness, 'has been excessive.

From Lord Chatham His Early Life and Connections by Archibald Phillip Primrose Rosebery

Nor for every defect in faithfulness, through ignorance, want of courage, misinformation, or being biassed with affection for particular persons.

From A Hind Let Loose Or, An Historical Representation of the Testimonies of the Church of Scotland for the Interest of Christ. With the True State Thereof in All Its Periods by Alexander Shields

That smaller sample means certain demographic groups may be over- or under-covered, biasing the total estimates.

From Slate ● Sep. 17, 2026

That meant that researchers could keep the organoids separated without biasing their experimental results.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 18, 2025

Much of the research in nutrition is funded by industry, which has been criticized for biasing the results.

From Salon ● May 1, 2025

Bullard said it's not just inflation biasing the Fed toward more action.

From Reuters ● Sep. 14, 2023

Such ideas as these are corrupting courts, and biasing the public mind, and the injury is more than apparent to the observer.

From The Use and Need of the Life of Carry A. Nation by Carry Amelia Nation

There would be no harm in biassing me in her favour.

From Ellen Middletonβ€”A Tale by Georgiana Fullerton

The subject is one of immense importance, and especially in this country, where it can seldom be discussed without adventitious circumstances biassing the inquirers.

From The Moral and Intellectual Diversity of Races With Particular Reference to Their Respective Influence in the Civil and Political History of Mankind by T. S. (Timothy Shay) Arthur

However, this is beside the question; and I want to avoid biassing your decision in any way.

From Afloat at Last A Sailor Boy's Log of his Life at Sea by William Heysham Overend

He did not," he said, "state the impression upon his own mind with the purpose of biassing theirs.

From The Heart of Mid-Lothian, Volume 1 by Sir Walter Scott

Still the attitude created by the Tubingen theory largely persists as a biassing element in much that is written about Acts.

From The Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia Volume 1 of 28 by Project Gutenberg




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