How to Use bias in a Sentence

bias

1 of 3 noun
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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.
  • Avoid the present bias and think about the long-term effect.
    — James Langabeer, Forbes, 15 Nov. 2021
  • And here again, the bias would tend to be toward the Democrats.
    — Nate Cohn, New York Times, 12 May 2020
  • And the best way to fight unconscious bias is to bring it to light.
    — Whizy Kim, refinery29.com, 9 Mar. 2020
  • Racial bias training hasn't worked all that well in the past.
    — Jackie Crosby, Star Tribune, 24 July 2021
  • Does this create a bias against child care outside the home?
    — William A. Galston, WSJ, 11 May 2021
  • 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
  • So there is quite likely bias in which species are tracked.
    — Catrin Einhorn, New York Times, 12 Oct. 2022
  • The bias against prog-rock was real, and maybe still is to a degree.
    — Chuck Yarborough, cleveland, 12 Jan. 2020
  • This bias lies behind the ageism in tech and many other parts of the economy.
    — Arthur C. Brooks, The Atlantic, 3 Mar. 2022
  • Winn said much of the bias is often on the clinician and researcher side.
    — Angus Chen, STAT, 8 June 2022
  • 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
  • The cafe chain held racial-bias training in May in response.
    — Dalvin Brown, USA TODAY, 5 July 2018
  • This bias toward a complete picture of the past applies to the present, too.
    — Daisy Hernandez, Popular Mechanics, 30 Dec. 2021
  • Gender bias, on the other hand, is not as easy to root out.
    — Katie Johnston, BostonGlobe.com, 3 Sep. 2019
  • Is there a policy for bias and hate in your code of conduct?
    — Ginny Monk, Hartford Courant, 18 Sep. 2022
  • These changes in testing practices leave even more room for bias.
    — Yasmin Tayag, The Atlantic, 28 Apr. 2022
  • Hunt said Bennett told her the bias training went against his rights.
    — Olivia Krauth, The Courier-Journal, 4 Jan. 2022
  • To have red hair is always to tolerate some form of bias, though.
    — Jessica Matlin, Allure, 15 Feb. 2018
  • When the parties stood for both city and country that bias affected them both.
    — The Economist, 12 July 2018
  • Through their essays, the students stand up and speak out against bias and bigotry.
    — Ed Wittenberg, cleveland, 30 Apr. 2021
  • And the results of that longtermism would have had a clear progressive bias.
    — Steven Johnson, New York Times, 15 Mar. 2023
  • Questions of racial bias have plagued the Vogue editor for many years.
    — Haley Victory Smith, Washington Examiner, 10 June 2020
  • Over the same period, bias against fat people has grown.
    — Megan Garber, The Atlantic, 9 Nov. 2021
  • LaVergne had raised the specter of racial bias by hotel officials.
    — Ken Ritter, ajc, 9 Apr. 2021
  • In some ways, that took away any bias about restrictions in the women’s game.
    — Marisa Ingemi, San Francisco Chronicle, 4 Feb. 2023
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bias

2 of 3 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
  • Today, the view that the justice system is biased against blacks has grown.
    — CBS News, 29 Sep. 2017
  • The managers who were told that stereotypes are common were more biased against the women.
    — Joanne Lipman, Time, 25 Jan. 2018
  • Just the idea that the Apple Card might be biased was enough to turn customers against it.
    — Wired, 21 Nov. 2019
  • And according to critics, Snopes is biased to the left.
    — Amar Bhidé, WSJ, 8 June 2018
  • The inevitable omissions can bias the data against certain groups.
    — Hannah Fry, The New Yorker, 22 Mar. 2021
  • This, the teenager said, was proof that he was biased against Islam.
    — Rebecca Hamilton, Washington Post, 5 Feb. 2020
  • Lembke said that advocacy could bias the results of the study.
    — al, 15 Nov. 2020
  • The questions were biased and slanted, the facts incorrect.
    — Mehera Bonner, Marie Claire, 22 Feb. 2018
  • Russia says the group is biased against the Assad government.
    — Steve Almasy and Richard Roth, CNN, 26 Oct. 2017
  • Fifty-three percent of Democrats think the bureau is not biased either way.
    — Peter Grier, The Christian Science Monitor, 29 Mar. 2018
  • The way the sponsors present their ideas can bias and influence decision making.
    — Tendayi Viki, Forbes, 4 Jan. 2022
  • May be biased but someone was a star at her 4-year-old dance recital!
    — Dan Sweeney, Sun-Sentinel.com, 5 June 2017
  • Some of these trials have also been funded by the food industry, which can bias results.
    — Star Tribune, 8 Jan. 2021
  • Hiring managers must learn to de-bias their procedures.
    — Maria Wu, Forbes, 19 Oct. 2021
  • Is this just about newspapers being biased in favor of adorable kids covered in dirt?
    — Moiya McTier, Popular Science, 2 Aug. 2023
  • The rapper’s lawyer has argued that the judge was biased against Meek, but the transcripts prove otherwise.
    — Essence.com, 30 Jan. 2018
  • The observers were not told which calls were being broadcast, in order not to bias their observations.
    — The Economist, 14 June 2018
  • Are there other ways we can be biased by seeing only a select subsample of the data?
    — Katy Milkman, Scientific American, 11 Feb. 2020
  • That leads to bias against people who use language differently than white people.
    — Khari Johnson, Wired, 17 June 2021
  • McNair also stressed that Lake was biased and could not be trusted.
    — Michael McCann, SI.com, 21 May 2018
  • 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
  • Bad would waste time and not be useful, while very bad would make things worse as trainees exhaust themselves trying not to be biased and revert to their old ways.
    — Kay Manning, chicagotribune.com, 24 May 2018
  • If that data is tainted with bias, the algorithm, too, will inevitably be biased.
    — Igor Khalatian, Forbes, 17 Mar. 2023
  • Sure, Craig may be biased as the father of a Heisman Trophy winner.
    — Jarrett Bell, USA TODAY, 29 Apr. 2023
  • For one, these measures might be biased by the tendency for respondents to over-report voting for the winner.
    — Nate Cohn, New York Times, 31 May 2017
  • Lewis and his colleagues presented evidence that Morton did not bias his findings at all.
    — Carl Zimmer, Discover Magazine, 27 June 2011
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bias

3 of 3 adjective
  • All vice presidents must complete two hours of anti-bias training as well.
    — Khristopher J. Brooks, CBS News, 16 Oct. 2020
  • Elam also promised to convene a series of campus forums and anti-bias workshops.
    — Jeong Park Staff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 10 Feb. 2022
  • Ryan said her office’s anti-bias task force is working on the investigation.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 14 July 2021
  • But this is not the only human encouragement and anti-bias act that has been enacted recently.
    — Tameka Womack, Forbes, 24 June 2022
  • And the district has set a goal to expand current anti-bias training to include all Poway teachers and staff, Osborne said.
    — Kristen Taketa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 Oct. 2020
  • Anti-bias work requires more than just checking boxes, explained Allers.
    — Jennifer Adaeze Okwerekwu, STAT, 9 Apr. 2021
  • Anti-bias training could be helpful, as could training that frames lack of DEI as a systemic risk.
    — Bhakti Mirchandani, Forbes, 1 Jan. 2023
  • Students now are demanding more concrete actions, like anti-bias training for staff.
    — Kristen Taketa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 9 Aug. 2020
  • Parents are also pushing back against the loosely related trend of anti-bias training for students and staff members, which has led to dust-ups across the country.
    — New York Times, 1 June 2021
  • Mountain Brook schools might take to round out current anti-bias programming or start developing a new program.
    — Rebecca Griesbach | Rgriesbach@al.com, al, 29 June 2021
  • Vitale: Some of the research shows that officer behavior gets worse after these anti-bias training.
    — The Atlantic, 6 June 2020
  • The time since has been filled with significant but incremental changes, from anti-bias training to the adoption of body cameras to the curtailment of stop-and-frisk practices.
    — NBC News, 16 June 2020
  • However, Cordell favored the idea of Johnson speaking to officers as part of a larger anti-bias program.
    — Rachel Swan, SFChronicle.com, 25 June 2020
  • The district is also analyzing their current instructional framework and looking for how it can be used for anti-bias teachings and practices.
    — James T. Norman, chicagotribune.com, 10 Aug. 2020
  • The exchange came last week in a lawsuit involving anti-bias initiatives in Loudoun County’s public schools.
    — Rachel Weiner, Washington Post, 11 Dec. 2022
  • Children’s literature is just one part of fostering a child’s positive sense of self and others and raising an anti-racist and anti-bias child.
    — Smithsonian Magazine, 11 June 2020
  • The group also recommends more frequent teacher evaluations to help improve anti-bias practices.
    — Laura Newberry, Los Angeles Times, 8 June 2021
  • The app uses an anti-bias employment software that creates a blind profile of each job seeker by removing names, addresses and other factors.
    — La Risa R. Lynch, Journal Sentinel, 30 Dec. 2022
  • Ferebee said one possibility is to develop an anti-bias training for the people who evaluate teachers.
    — Washington Post, 13 Aug. 2021
  • Organizations must emphasize anti-bias training and regularly adapt as knowledge is gained in this area.
    — Doug Lodder, Forbes, 8 Oct. 2021
  • An online module to aid conversations about anti-bias, anti-bullying, and hate.
    — Linda Darling-Hammond, Forbes, 21 Apr. 2021
  • Smith College, however, still forced the pair to undergo anti-bias training and apologize to Kanoute.
    — Fox News, 24 Mar. 2021
  • It’s not anti-bias training one time, Frye said, but it’s a host of long-term policies that target resources into the areas that breed disparities.
    — Chabeli Carrazana, USA TODAY, 14 Aug. 2020
  • Require anti-bias training for law enforcement officers.
    — David Jacobs, Washington Examiner, 15 Jan. 2021
  • By the end of the week, their teacher had hired an equity coach to conduct an anti-racist, anti-bias workshop and invited students and their parents to participate via Zoom.
    — Washington Post, 21 June 2021
  • Anti-bias training is included in our onboarding process and reiterated during site-wide meetings.
    — Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports, Arkansas Online, 12 Nov. 2022
  • More staff and grant reviewers with expertise on AAPIs should be recruited and given anti-bias training.
    — Amy Yee, Scientific American, 8 July 2021
  • McCartney then announced that every staff member would be required to under mandatory anti-bias training in addition to workshops.
    — Julia Musto, Fox News, 26 Feb. 2021
  • Meanwhile, schools can do a better job of helping staff engage in anti-bias workshops to understand that, oftentimes, implicit bias plays a role, Howard said.
    — Dallas News, 17 Feb. 2022
  • Mountain Brook school officials will continue diversity and anti-bias training for teachers, but there is no timeline or plan for what future training might look like.
    — al, 13 July 2021

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