How to Use bias in a Sentence

bias

1 of 3 noun

• 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.
• And here again, the bias would tend to be toward the Democrats.
  — Nate Cohn, New York Times, 12 May 2020
• Avoid the present bias and think about the long-term effect.
  — James Langabeer, Forbes, 15 Nov. 2021
• Racial bias training hasn't worked all that well in the past.
  — Jackie Crosby, Star Tribune, 24 July 2021
• And the best way to fight unconscious bias is to bring it to light.
  — Whizy Kim, refinery29.com, 9 Mar. 2020
• Cut the baguette, on a bias, into one-inch or one-and-a-half inch slices.
  — Nancy Miller, The Courier-Journal, 27 Mar. 2018
• 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
• The bias against prog-rock was real, and maybe still is to a degree.
  — Chuck Yarborough, cleveland, 12 Jan. 2020
• To bias-slice, cut the green onions at a 45-degree angle.
  — Sheena Chihak, Better Homes & Gardens, 29 Sep. 2022
• The cafe chain held racial-bias training in May in response.
  — Dalvin Brown, USA TODAY, 5 July 2018
• 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
• And, some people look great with dresses cut on the bias.
  — Jackie Fields, Peoplemag, 27 Mar. 2024
• Does this create a bias against child care outside the home?
  — William A. Galston, WSJ, 11 May 2021
• Gender bias, on the other hand, is not as easy to root out.
  — Katie Johnston, BostonGlobe.com, 3 Sep. 2019
• This bias toward a complete picture of the past applies to the present, too.
  — Daisy Hernandez, Popular Mechanics, 30 Dec. 2021
• So there is quite likely bias in which species are tracked.
  — Catrin Einhorn, New York Times, 12 Oct. 2022
• Slice very thin with a sharp knife, starting at the wide side of the fillet and cutting on the bias toward the tail.
  — Julia O'Malley, Anchorage Daily News, 10 Aug. 2023
• This bias lies behind the ageism in tech and many other parts of the economy.
  — Arthur C. Brooks, The Atlantic, 3 Mar. 2022
• Hunt said Bennett told her the bias training went against his rights.
  — Olivia Krauth, The Courier-Journal, 4 Jan. 2022
• Winn said much of the bias is often on the clinician and researcher side.
  — Angus Chen, STAT, 8 June 2022
• Outside of Meryl Streep, will there be a bias against women?
  — The Tylt, AL.com, 9 May 2017
• In some ways, that took away any bias about restrictions in the women’s game.
  — Marisa Ingemi, San Francisco Chronicle, 4 Feb. 2023
• Questions of racial bias have plagued the Vogue editor for many years.
  — Haley Victory Smith, Washington Examiner, 10 June 2020
• LaVergne had raised the specter of racial bias by hotel officials.
  — Ken Ritter, ajc, 9 Apr. 2021
• Is there a policy for bias and hate in your code of conduct?
  — Ginny Monk, Hartford Courant, 18 Sep. 2022
• And the results of that longtermism would have had a clear progressive bias.
  — Steven Johnson, New York Times, 15 Mar. 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
• Just the idea that the Apple Card might be biased was enough to turn customers against it.
  — Wired, 21 Nov. 2019
• This, the teenager said, was proof that he was biased against Islam.
  — Rebecca Hamilton, Washington Post, 5 Feb. 2020
• May be biased but someone was a star at her 4-year-old dance recital!
  — Dan Sweeney, Sun-Sentinel.com, 5 June 2017
• The menu is Paris-at-the-mouth-of-the-Mississippi, the wine list biased toward Burgundy.
  — Brett Anderson, New York Times, 16 Oct. 2023
• Today, the view that the justice system is biased against blacks has grown.
  — CBS News, 29 Sep. 2017
• And according to critics, Snopes is biased to the left.
  — Amar Bhidé, WSJ, 8 June 2018
• We may be biased, but there's just something about the Critics Choice Awards—and the red carpet is a big part of the evening's appeal.
  — Glamour, 15 Jan. 2024
• Fifty-three percent of Democrats think the bureau is not biased either way.
  — Peter Grier, The Christian Science Monitor, 29 Mar. 2018
• The managers who were told that stereotypes are common were more biased against the women.
  — Joanne Lipman, Time, 25 Jan. 2018
• The rapper’s lawyer has argued that the judge was biased against Meek, but the transcripts prove otherwise.
  — Essence.com, 30 Jan. 2018
• Russia says the group is biased against the Assad government.
  — Steve Almasy and Richard Roth, CNN, 26 Oct. 2017
• Sure, Craig may be biased as the father of a Heisman Trophy winner.
  — Jarrett Bell, USA TODAY, 29 Apr. 2023
• The questions were biased and slanted, the facts incorrect.
  — Mehera Bonner, Marie Claire, 22 Feb. 2018
• And of that number, 79% of black Americans believe he is biased against them.
  — Jenn M. Jackson, Teen Vogue, 27 Apr. 2018
• At the same event, Blake Ballin, who represents Mills, expressed concern that the release of the video could bias a jury pool against his client.
  — Andrea Marks, Rolling Stone, 27 Jan. 2023
• The inevitable omissions can bias the data against certain groups.
  — Hannah Fry, The New Yorker, 22 Mar. 2021
• Lembke said that advocacy could bias the results of the study.
  — al, 15 Nov. 2020
• 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
• McNair also stressed that Lake was biased and could not be trusted.
  — Michael McCann, SI.com, 21 May 2018
• The way the sponsors present their ideas can bias and influence decision making.
  — Tendayi Viki, Forbes, 4 Jan. 2022
• Some of these trials have also been funded by the food industry, which can bias results.
  — Star Tribune, 8 Jan. 2021
• The observers were not told which calls were being broadcast, in order not to bias their observations.
  — The Economist, 14 June 2018
• Hiring managers must learn to de-bias their procedures.
  — Maria Wu, Forbes, 19 Oct. 2021
• If that data is tainted with bias, the algorithm, too, will inevitably be biased.
  — Igor Khalatian, Forbes, 17 Mar. 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
• Is this just about newspapers being biased in favor of adorable kids covered in dirt?
  — Moiya McTier, Popular Science, 2 Aug. 2023

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bias

3 of 3 adjective

• Anti-bias training could be helpful, as could training that frames lack of DEI as a systemic risk.
  — Bhakti Mirchandani, Forbes, 1 Jan. 2023
• 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
• All vice presidents must complete two hours of anti-bias training as well.
  — Khristopher J. Brooks, CBS News, 16 Oct. 2020
• Principal Eric Juli accepted an anti-bias education grant for $5,000 to be used for the school in the year ahead.
  — Shirley MacFarland, cleveland, 14 May 2021
• Elam also promised to convene a series of campus forums and anti-bias workshops.
  — Jeong Park Staff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 10 Feb. 2022
• Funding the next phase of the collaborative agreement, an anti-bias policing agreement signed in the wake of Cincinnati’s 2001 riots.
  — Scott Wartman, Cincinnati.com, 3 June 2020
• Ryan said her office’s anti-bias task force is working on the investigation.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 14 July 2021
• Anti-bias work requires more than just checking boxes, explained Allers.
  — Jennifer Adaeze Okwerekwu, STAT, 9 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
• 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
• 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 exchange came last week in a lawsuit involving anti-bias initiatives in Loudoun County’s public schools.
  — Rachel Weiner, Washington Post, 11 Dec. 2022
• Vitale: Some of the research shows that officer behavior gets worse after these anti-bias training.
  — The Atlantic, 6 June 2020
• But this is not the only human encouragement and anti-bias act that has been enacted recently.
  — Tameka Womack, Forbes, 24 June 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
• 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
• Mountain Brook schools might take to round out current anti-bias programming or start developing a new program.
  — Rebecca Griesbach | [e-mail], al, 29 June 2021
• Students now are demanding more concrete actions, like anti-bias training for staff.
  — Kristen Taketa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 9 Aug. 2020
• 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
• The director of Utah’s police academy on Wednesday unveiled plans to increase the amount of anti-bias training and hand-to-hand combat instruction cadets receive.
  — Nate Carlisle, The Salt Lake Tribune, 9 Sep. 2020
• 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
• An amendment to Cincinnati's anti-bias law, approved last year by the City Council, bans discrimination based on natural hair.
  — Max Londberg, USA TODAY, 18 Aug. 2020
• Mason, who has five kids in Davis School District, said during one hearing that despite requesting to see the curriculum at their schools related to anti-bias lessons, she was denied access.
  — Courtney Tanner, The Salt Lake Tribune, 23 Mar. 2022
• Opponents charge that Loudoun, by holding things like anti-bias trainings for employees, will teach children of different races to hate one another and White children to hate themselves.
  — Washington Post, 11 Aug. 2021
• The lieutenant governor also noted that Utah’s police academy this month unveiled plans to increase the amount of anti-bias training and hand-to-hand combat instruction cadets receive.
  — Bethany Rodgers, The Salt Lake Tribune, 25 Sep. 2020
• 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
• 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
• An online module to aid conversations about anti-bias, anti-bullying, and hate.
  — Linda Darling-Hammond, Forbes, 21 Apr. 2021

Last Updated: 9 May 2024