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bias

A bias is a preference in one direction that makes things unequal. There is strong evidence of a bias towards the death penalty for black rather than white murderers. They had plans for an international centre, with a strong political bias. The bias is the diagonal direction, especially in cloth. The neckline was cut on the bias to improve the drape of the fabric.

bias

If you bias something, you unfairly make one result more likely than another. Sexism in language biases experience constantly towards the male sex. By not providing this information, you bias the results.

bias

a partiality that prevents objective consideration of an issue or situation cause to be biased influence in an unfair way you are biasing my choice by telling me yours slanting diagonally across the grain of a fabric a bias fold (= diagonal) a line or cut across a fabric that is not at right angles to a side of the fabric

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bias · verb

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Simple sentences

You have to judge the case without bias.
The villagers had a bias against any newcomer.
Cut the cloth on the bias.

Movie subtitles

Would run up for me two field goals and a bias, with the score tied in the back?
I mean on the level. - The others were on the bias?
My Lord, I submit that the witness has shown in his evidence and also in his behavior, an almost pathological bias against not only my client, but against all women.
I hope you gentlemen, madam, will not be influenced by this same negative bias.
You see a man with his eyes set and his head on a bias and his teeth like a mule's.
He accuses me of bias of putting the police on trial.
There are fair reasons to suspect bias of prosecutor Katzman. -.and of judge Thayer.
These i.q. tests Were thought to contain an unfair cultural bias Against the penguin.
I have a bias A of plus one.
I have no bias.
Because of this bias, we ignore what's going on here at this plant.
You didn't really think I'd activate the Reverse Bias, did you?
They've been documenting Instances of bias in BBC current affairs. Favourable news stoles not reported. Oh, yes.
The King falls from bias of nature, there's father against child.
Look out there. You're shooting us on the bias.
The others were on the bias?
I'll just cut one sleeve on the bias here a little bit, but it'll be fine.
You see a man with his eyes set. and his head on a bias and his teeth like a mule's.
A little bit of a bias but nice balance.
WERE THOUGHT TO CONTAIN AN UNFAIR CULTURAL BIAS AGAINST THE PENGUIN.
I was wearing this gorgeous gown, cut on the bias.
Because of this bias, we ignore what's going on here at this plant. We ignore it at our own risk.
In conjunction with the BFI, the Bird Facilities Industry, Appropinquo Fallcatti organised critical screenings of films with an ornithological bias.
They've been documenting Instances of bias in BBC current affairs. Favourable news stoles not reported.
If you don't use his interview, he's gonna sue for bias prejudice and equal time.
There are two kinds of people who fear police, those who've done something bad and those who have an anti-police bias.
Yes, sir. But he has a very strong bias against any form of industry.
But because of the limitations of our eyes we have a prejudice, a bias, a chauvinism to this tiny rainbow band of visible light.
I have come to speak on behalf of the accused. Personal bias.
You think you could claim bias?
No elastic on the sides. Cut on the bias.
Quit being so bias? about this.
I must admit I was a little shocked to find the state of Klingon neurological medicine to be so primitive. It's a cultural bias.
On the one hand, Madeline's strong anti-flesh bias, and on the other, Gussie's determination to get all the cuts off the joint that are coming to him.
You think Morgan thinks I have a racial bias?
We must fight back against the anti-clerical bias of the media!
Credibility and bias.
One of the last vestiges of gender bias is the dirty joke.

News and current affairs

Of course, no one simple change will eliminate the huge bias towards deficit spending in most modern political systems.
Of course, Arabs are still unhappy with the United States' continued bias towards Israel.
Others object to specific rights which they say reflect Western cultural bias, the most troublesome here being women's rights.
If anything, bias toward males is stronger in Christian families.
Norway has set an excellent example - one that all of Europe should follow as the best way to transcend the culture of gender bias and stereotyping that is still prevalent in many companies and institutions.
More people think their lives are improving, while others are doing worse, probably because of journalists' persistent bias in favor of bad news.
One common source of businesses' blind spots is judgment bias.
Insurers must also be attentive to a wide array of possible moral hazards - perverse incentives to risky behavior - and to problems of selection bias in attracting clients.
There may be a deeper bias at work.
That model is, to some extent, a policy-induced construct, the result of a deep-rooted bias toward construction and manufacturing as the leading drivers of economic development.
Moreover, the bias toward manufacturing and export industries leads to a severe misallocation of capital.
But when I complained about bias against gays, the editor responded that gays don't deserve any sort of protection.
Gender bias against women permeates throughout Africa, and women are usually blamed for bringing HIV into a relationship.
A law promoting small enterprises (so long as they remain small!) only increases the bias against large scale operations embedded in Argentina's high tax rates and strict labor market regulations.
The mainstream media's tendency to avoid checking out or reporting what is actually newsworthy in Internet conspiracy theories partly reflects class bias.
The experience of other war crimes tribunals suggests that questions about political bias may take years to overcome.
This bias is reinforced by the marketing message of pharmaceutical companies to physicians, which has emphasized research on delayed diagnosis and under-recognition of bipolar disorder, possibly sensitizing clinicians accordingly.
Perhaps this reflects my own bias, but I suspect that this evasiveness on the part of Britain's main political parties has weakened support for them, by diminishing their status as valid representatives of the country.
Such bias has discouraged Chinese capital from making bigger bets on Europe.

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