How to Use bias in a Sentence

bias

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  • Do they have a bias against women?
  • The company was accused of racial bias.
  • The decision was made without bias.
  • She showed no bias toward older clients.
  • He showed a bias toward a few workers in particular.
  • And here again, the bias would tend to be toward the Democrats.
    — Nate Cohn, New York Times, 12 May 2020
  • Avoid the present bias and think about the long-term effect.
    — James Langabeer, Forbes, 15 Nov. 2021
  • Racial bias training hasn't worked all that well in the past.
    — Jackie Crosby, Star Tribune, 24 July 2021
  • And the best way to fight unconscious bias is to bring it to light.
    — Whizy Kim, refinery29.com, 9 Mar. 2020
  • Cut the baguette, on a bias, into one-inch or one-and-a-half inch slices.
    — Nancy Miller, The Courier-Journal, 27 Mar. 2018
  • And so that bias is very, very hard for people in the ranks to get their heads around.
    — Geek's Guide To The Galaxy, WIRED, 2 June 2018
  • The bias against prog-rock was real, and maybe still is to a degree.
    — Chuck Yarborough, cleveland, 12 Jan. 2020
  • To bias-slice, cut the green onions at a 45-degree angle.
    — Sheena Chihak, Better Homes & Gardens, 29 Sep. 2022
  • The cafe chain held racial-bias training in May in response.
    — Dalvin Brown, USA TODAY, 5 July 2018
  • Slice the green onions on the bias, both white and green parts, and reserve to use as a garnish.
    — Chris Ross, Twin Cities, 19 July 2019
  • And, some people look great with dresses cut on the bias.
    — Jackie Fields, Peoplemag, 27 Mar. 2024
  • Does this create a bias against child care outside the home?
    — William A. Galston, WSJ, 11 May 2021
  • Gender bias, on the other hand, is not as easy to root out.
    — Katie Johnston, BostonGlobe.com, 3 Sep. 2019
  • This bias toward a complete picture of the past applies to the present, too.
    — Daisy Hernandez, Popular Mechanics, 30 Dec. 2021
  • So there is quite likely bias in which species are tracked.
    — Catrin Einhorn, New York Times, 12 Oct. 2022
  • Slice very thin with a sharp knife, starting at the wide side of the fillet and cutting on the bias toward the tail.
    — Julia O'Malley, Anchorage Daily News, 10 Aug. 2023
  • This bias lies behind the ageism in tech and many other parts of the economy.
    — Arthur C. Brooks, The Atlantic, 3 Mar. 2022
  • Hunt said Bennett told her the bias training went against his rights.
    — Olivia Krauth, The Courier-Journal, 4 Jan. 2022
  • Winn said much of the bias is often on the clinician and researcher side.
    — Angus Chen, STAT, 8 June 2022
  • Outside of Meryl Streep, will there be a bias against women?
    — The Tylt, AL.com, 9 May 2017
  • In some ways, that took away any bias about restrictions in the women’s game.
    — Marisa Ingemi, San Francisco Chronicle, 4 Feb. 2023
  • Questions of racial bias have plagued the Vogue editor for many years.
    — Haley Victory Smith, Washington Examiner, 10 June 2020
  • LaVergne had raised the specter of racial bias by hotel officials.
    — Ken Ritter, ajc, 9 Apr. 2021
  • But the risks of false positives and bias against English learners have led some universities to ditch the tools for now.
    — Amanda Hoover, WIRED, 9 Apr. 2024
  • Is your anxiety fact-based, or are your biases spurring negative emotions?
    — Brad Jacobs, Fortune, 4 Apr. 2024
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bias

2 of 2 verb
  • The circumstances could bias the results of the survey.
  • I don't want to bias you against the movie, but I thought the book was much better.
  • This puts the bulk of the work on the front leg and should bias the glutes more than the quads.
    — Esther Smith, Outside Online, 9 Jan. 2022
  • That way, the cost of a pair of headphones wouldn’t bias our ratings.
    — Benjamin Levin, CNN Underscored, 21 Aug. 2020
  • Just the idea that the Apple Card might be biased was enough to turn customers against it.
    — Wired, 21 Nov. 2019
  • This, the teenager said, was proof that he was biased against Islam.
    — Rebecca Hamilton, Washington Post, 5 Feb. 2020
  • May be biased but someone was a star at her 4-year-old dance recital!
    — Dan Sweeney, Sun-Sentinel.com, 5 June 2017
  • The menu is Paris-at-the-mouth-of-the-Mississippi, the wine list biased toward Burgundy.
    — Brett Anderson, New York Times, 16 Oct. 2023
  • Today, the view that the justice system is biased against blacks has grown.
    — CBS News, 29 Sep. 2017
  • And according to critics, Snopes is biased to the left.
    — Amar Bhidé, WSJ, 8 June 2018
  • We may be biased, but there's just something about the Critics Choice Awards—and the red carpet is a big part of the evening's appeal.
    — Glamour, 15 Jan. 2024
  • Fifty-three percent of Democrats think the bureau is not biased either way.
    — Peter Grier, The Christian Science Monitor, 29 Mar. 2018
  • The managers who were told that stereotypes are common were more biased against the women.
    — Joanne Lipman, Time, 25 Jan. 2018
  • The rapper’s lawyer has argued that the judge was biased against Meek, but the transcripts prove otherwise.
    — Essence.com, 30 Jan. 2018
  • Russia says the group is biased against the Assad government.
    — Steve Almasy and Richard Roth, CNN, 26 Oct. 2017
  • Sure, Craig may be biased as the father of a Heisman Trophy winner.
    — Jarrett Bell, USA TODAY, 29 Apr. 2023
  • The questions were biased and slanted, the facts incorrect.
    — Mehera Bonner, Marie Claire, 22 Feb. 2018
  • And of that number, 79% of black Americans believe he is biased against them.
    — Jenn M. Jackson, Teen Vogue, 27 Apr. 2018
  • At the same event, Blake Ballin, who represents Mills, expressed concern that the release of the video could bias a jury pool against his client.
    — Andrea Marks, Rolling Stone, 27 Jan. 2023
  • The inevitable omissions can bias the data against certain groups.
    — Hannah Fry, The New Yorker, 22 Mar. 2021
  • Lembke said that advocacy could bias the results of the study.
    — al, 15 Nov. 2020
  • Fox tried to block this from the trial, arguing that salaries aren’t linked to ratings, and that this data could bias the jury against the network.
    — Marshall Cohen, CNN, 11 Apr. 2023
  • McNair also stressed that Lake was biased and could not be trusted.
    — Michael McCann, SI.com, 21 May 2018
  • The way the sponsors present their ideas can bias and influence decision making.
    — Tendayi Viki, Forbes, 4 Jan. 2022
  • Some of these trials have also been funded by the food industry, which can bias results.
    — Star Tribune, 8 Jan. 2021
  • The observers were not told which calls were being broadcast, in order not to bias their observations.
    — The Economist, 14 June 2018
  • Hiring managers must learn to de-bias their procedures.
    — Maria Wu, Forbes, 19 Oct. 2021
  • If that data is tainted with bias, the algorithm, too, will inevitably be biased.
    — Igor Khalatian, Forbes, 17 Mar. 2023
  • Amazon once used an AI recruitment tool that turned out to be biased against female applicants.
    — Bruce Weinstein, Forbes, 21 Feb. 2024
  • Self-assessment is also valuable but is often biased by personal perceptions and blind spots.
    — Robin Elledge, Forbes, 20 Feb. 2024

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