bias
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[change]- (countable & uncountable) A bias is a preference in one direction that makes things unequal.
- There is strong evidence of a bias towards the death penalty for black rather than white murderers.
- They had plans for an international centre, with a strong political bias.
- (countable) The bias is the diagonal direction, especially in cloth.
- The neckline was cut on the bias to improve the drape of the fabric.
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- (transitive) If you bias something, you unfairly make one result more likely than another.
- Sexism in language biases experience constantly towards the male sex.
- By not providing this information, you bias the results.