BIASES Synonyms: 81 Similar and Opposite Words

biases 1 of 2

noun

plural of bias

as in tendencies

a habitual attraction to some activity or thing from her youth she revealed a strong bias toward a life of the mind

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biases

2 of 2

verb

variants or biasses

present tense third-person singular of bias

as in prejudices

to cause to have often negative opinions formed without sufficient knowledge bad reviews biased her against the movie, even though it starred one of her favorite actors

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Noun

Then, entities like White Circle could possibly form a coalition to help detect AI threats in real time, without suffering from biases. — Ashley Belanger, ArsTechnica, 14 Oct. 2026 Many of those concerns have centered on the often-troubling biases programmed into AI platforms. — Jakob McWhinney, Los Angeles Times, 13 Oct. 2026 What does this mean for reducing food waste and shedding these purchasing biases? — Jintao Zhang, The Conversation, 13 Oct. 2026 Trump and his allies have also sued several media organizations, including The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and BBC News, over alleged biases or inaccuracies in their reporting. — Liz Napolitano, CNBC, 11 Oct. 2026 Without the financial incentive markets provide, social pressure and community biases play more of a role in influencing opinion. — Simon Denny, Artforum, 1 Oct. 2026 Others have questioned whether a new law paving the way for more prosecutions would disproportionately impact people of color due to existing biases in the criminal justice system. — Lauren Mascarenhas, CNN Money, 1 Oct. 2026 This helps to identify inherent biases early in the development process. — Wendy Johnstone, Forbes.com, 29 Sep. 2026 An all-male jury acquitted Borden of the slayings on June 20, 1893, based on a lack of evidence likely influenced by their own unconscious biases. — Erin Jensen, USA Today, 17 Sep. 2026

Verb

Obesity is clearly multifactorial, and emphasizing biology spotlights biological solutions, which biases our selection of choices related to our health. — Max Moser, STAT, 9 July 2026 Nationalist fervor over beating China biases AI policy toward recklessness — and possible catastrophe. — Robert Wright, Washington Post, 26 June 2026 In a recent 2020 study, even neutral words were processed by participants differently depending on whether they were placed in a positive or negative context, revealing that prior emotional tone biases how future information is received. — Mark Travers, Forbes.com, 29 Aug. 2025

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Noun

Maybe the shooting shook something loose in her and has amplified her worst tendencies.

— Sophie Brookover, Vulture, 17 Oct. 2026
These are broad tendencies, however, and do not guarantee how an individual storm or hurricane season will unfold.

— Gregory Padgett, CBS News, 16 Oct. 2026

Definition of tendencies

Noun

And a lot of the time, people who have these kinds of inclinations towards children are people who were children who were abused themselves.

— CT Jones, Rolling Stone, 25 Sep. 2026
The trustees feared that if something happened to him, his heir apparent, Robert Kahn, would replace him, and it was known that Kahn had Zionistic inclinations.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 22 Sep. 2026

Definition of inclinations

Noun

For this class, the premise is that your purpose in life lies to the intersection of your values, your aptitudes and your interests.

— Dana Taylor, USA Today, 6 May 2026
This model reflects Japan’s long-standing corporate culture, which prioritizes new hires for their general potential—their aptitudes and aspirations, as opposed to their current skill sets or university majors—and then trains them on the job.

— GRACIA LIU-FARRER, Foreign Affairs, 18 Nov. 2025

Definition of aptitudes

Noun

Beyond Carrington and Vicuña’s stylistic affinities, Lehmann and Norris pointed out how the reception of the artists’ work has changed over the decades and that both have only been canonized relatively recently.

— Maximilíano Durón, ARTnews.com, 12 Oct. 2026
With its affinities for isolation and, at times, imposing scale, Land art conjures archaeology and the geological sublime—vast expanses of space and time.

— Jeffrey Weiss, Artforum, 1 Oct. 2026

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