Thesaurus results for PREJUDICING

prejudicing

verb

present participle of prejudice

as in turning

to cause to have often negative opinions formed without sufficient knowledge all the bad stories I had heard about the incoming CEO prejudiced me against him even before the first meeting

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Recent Examples of prejudicing 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 While trying to clarify the results of the report to reporters, Ballard also referenced the strength of the state’s case against Tyler Robinson – statements the judge on Friday found risked prejudicing the jury pool. — Andi Babineau, CNN Money, 26 June 2026 Whitehead emphasized that district courts possess broad discretion in managing their dockets and found that further delay would risk prejudicing the plaintiffs given the ongoing effects of the suspension and associated agency actions. — Robert Alexander, MSNBC Newsweek, 10 Dec. 2025

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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

Definition of turning

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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

Definition of biasing

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Janabi said one of the biggest challenges has been persuading those who are infected to seek medical assistance, adding that some deaths occur in the community outside of health centers.

— Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 19 Oct. 2026
Both require making the right choices under pressure and persuading others to believe in them.

— Katherine Brodsky, Variety, 14 Oct. 2026

Definition of persuading

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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

Definition of convincing

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