Thesaurus results for BIASING

biasing

verb

variants or biassing

present participle of bias

as in turning

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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Recent Examples of biasing But in watermarking the text, AI systems readjust the probability of each of those possible words, biasing the model subtly in favor of some words over others. — Harmeet Kaur, CNN Money, 20 Aug. 2026 Text watermarks work by biasing the model’s word choices in a pattern spread across the entire document, only detectable in aggregate by the right tool. — Ashley Belanger, ArsTechnica, 13 Aug. 2026 The text watermark works by statistically biasing Claude’s word choices according to a key held by Anthropic. — Anisha Sircar, Forbes.com, 13 Aug. 2026 Treating chains of thought too reverently — even when their results are verifiable — could also prevent scientists from discovering even better ways of biasing LRMs toward accurate outputs. — John Pavlus, Quanta Magazine, 31 July 2026 But both studies make critical errors that undermine their conclusions, biasing their findings against detecting any benefits of early intervention. — Marc Lipsitch, STAT, 21 July 2026

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The chaparral, meanwhile, burns hot, turning a small fire into an intense blaze.

— Noah Haggerty, Los Angeles Times, 17 Oct. 2026
So turning the lights on and off repeatedly actually may not be in your best interest.

— Karen Brewer Grossman, Southern Living, 17 Oct. 2026

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Our main hurdle has always been convincing people to pay for a cinema ticket to watch two episodes of a series.

— Annika Pham, Variety, 16 Oct. 2026
To do so, the Republican Party has bet strongly this year on a strategy of convincing people that voter fraud is rampant.

— Christopher Miller, The Conversation, 15 Oct. 2026

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McIlrath said prosecutors and other investigating agencies are ethically prohibited from sharing information or making statements that could harm the fairness of legal process by influencing witnesses or prejudicing the grand jury.

— N'dea Yancey-Bragg, USA Today, 31 July 2026
Kenney and co-counsel Sheryl Leung objected to the request, calling it prior restraint on speech and arguing that the prosecution has not said anything publicly that could be seen as prejudicing potential jurors.

— Robert Salonga, Mercury News, 15 July 2026

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