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as in bias
an attitude that always favors one way of feeling or acting especially without considering any other possibilities
her lifelong prejudice against doing "dirty" jobs
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as in racism
hatred of or discrimination against a person or persons based on their race
fought racial prejudice through the use of the court system
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as in to bias
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 prejudice
Issy Ronald, CNN Money, 5 Jan. 2026
Also, why is there a Mayor’s Office to Combat Antisemitism and not one for prejudice against any other group?
—Voice Of The People, New York Daily News, 5 Jan. 2026
Dan Beck, Variety, 21 Oct. 2025
The school certainly wouldn’t be prejudiced against him.
—Lea Veloso, StyleCaster, 22 Sep. 2025
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Noun
Eva Schloss, who survived the Holocaust as a teenager before becoming Anne Frank’s stepsister and a tireless campaigner against prejudice, has died at age 96, her trust announced Sunday.
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The song is about not being prejudiced.
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Noun
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And there is also the power of confirmation bias.—
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Was there a regional bias at play?—
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Vampires emerge not as mere monsters but as spectral embodiments of racism’s unending drain on Black life in the South, a haunting metaphor for generational trauma.—
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Good parenting can help protect kids from racism’s harmful effects, but what works in person might not work online.—
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Researchers in Germany are set to turn green waste, hay and algae into fully biodegradable plastics.—
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Together, these trends have turned industrial space into a cornerstone of national logistics and digital capacity.—
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Over time, through Jim Crow, segregation, and disinheritance, Black families were not allowed to access the property anymore.—
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That is gentrification without preservation, segregation by another name.—
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“Prejudice.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/prejudice. Accessed 13 Jan. 2026.
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