Example Sentences

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Excluding both equally would have biased the trend in inflation upward.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 31, 2026

The Federal Trade Commission began cautioning businesses around that time to proceed cautiously with automated tools that might have biased or discriminatory impacts.

From Seattle Times • May 24, 2024

That could have biased the sample by possibly removing jurisdictions with lower rates of reporting rape and sexual violence, experts said.

From Washington Post • Mar. 14, 2023

“If you have not that many people of color within the dataset, then you might actually have biased results,” said Zhavoronkov, who said he was surprised by the winners.

From The Guardian • Sep. 8, 2016

No state policy in this case, can well be supposed to have biased him, and when there are no motives to falsehood, it is somewhat cruel to discredit assertions.

From The Lives of the Poets of Great Britain and Ireland (1753) Volume II by Cibber, Theophilus