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"Our theory is that most of these distant sources are affected by this cosmological effect, creating an observational bias," said Rinaldi.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 17, 2026

“They possess this hidden skill that we’re overlooking from this bias against them,” said Scott Bentley, an assistant professor of human-resource management at Rutgers School of Management and Labor Relations who co-wrote the report.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 17, 2026

Under former Fed Chair Jerome Powell, for instance, bond markets tended to be more reactive to his press conferences rather than the policy bias from statements by the Federal Open Market Committee.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 11, 2026

“We’ve got to allow ourselves to build outwards, not just upwards, and we’ve got to end the bias against single family homes,” Hilton said at a March forum hosted by the California Assn. of Realtors.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 10, 2026

Here we have a bias that is mainly geometrical.

From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker

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

The aim was to assess how their biases were affected by scene-by-scene content analysis of the racial representation of 29 popular kids shows and movies.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 13, 2026

But after an investor has begun to participate in the markets, he or she may have developed biases that are hard to overcome.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 8, 2026

One of its core biases is that value stocks outperform growth stocks, which of course they haven’t for over a decade.

From Barron's ● Jun. 18, 2026

Ultimately, a jury who brought many presumptions and biases to the trial of Marsha Colbey was selected to decide her fate.

From "Just Mercy" by Bryan Stevenson

Mikaela, who was supposed to judge the round with James, recused herself because she felt she would be too biased.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 12, 2026

He was freed after his conviction was overturned on procedural grounds, with the presiding judge also later ruled to have been biased.

From Barron's ● Aug. 5, 2026

He put this partially down to the first two weeks of the period tending to correlate with Wall Street two-year projections – which are biased lower.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 20, 2026

"Having visited all four Grand Slams, I might be biased, but Wimbledon is truly in a league of its own," Jacqueline adds.

From BBC ● Jul. 5, 2026

He realized that M. Bouc was biased in the matter.

From "Murder on the Orient Express" by Agatha Christie

Christina thinks you're so anxious not to favour him because he's your nephew that you are positively biassed against him.

From Caesar's Wife A comedy in three acts by W. Somerset (William Somerset) Maugham

That Mr. Wallace himself should be biassed in this matter might, perhaps, be expected.

From Darwin, and After Darwin, Volume 2 Post-Darwinian Questions: Heredity and Utility by George John Romanes

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

It is confirmed by other evidence, Catholic, Dissenting, pagan, scientific, and by the reports of illiterate men, unbiassed by science, and little biassed by religion.

From Myth, Ritual And Religion, Vol. 2 (of 2) by Andrew Lang

The History is defective in its lack of objectivity; Graetz’s judgments are sometimes biassed, and in particular he lacks sympathy with mysticism.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 3 "Gordon, Lord George" to "Grasses" by Various

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

From Science Daily ● Oct. 18, 2025

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

From Reuters ● Sep. 14, 2023

By periodically biasing word selection in this way, a body of text is watermarked based on a particular distribution of tagged words.

From Salon ● Apr. 6, 2023

That could cause the team to miss thousands of infections that caused few or no symptoms, potentially biasing the results.

From Science Magazine ● Jan. 19, 2023

No one knew better or more dreaded the risk of biasing opinion by over or under-statements concerning the conspicuous persons of whom he wrote.

From Memoir of Jared Sparks, LL.D. by Brantz Mayer

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

From Ellen Middleton—A Tale by Georgiana Fullerton

Even if he was going to revise his views, was it right, was it candid, was it loyal to the truth, that he should revise them under the biassing influence of Meenie's eyes?

From Strange Stories by Grant Allen

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

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

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