biased towards
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- adjective
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- He tends to be biased towards friends when making decisions about promotions.
They're both going to bring in people who are who are biased towards their own political futures.
- They're both going to bring in people who are who are biased towards their own political futures.
- But suffice to say, the conversation has been heavily biased towards positive stories.
- And maybe they could be a little bit more neutral or if anything, biased towards the West.
- And because NP is biased towards yes answers, it always finds a yes answer if you can.
- You can't call yourself a good person because you're biased towards yourself and you're delusional most likely.
- And there were times, because society is desperately biased towards the morning types, you know, this notion of the early bird catches the worm.
Examples
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However, the current system does seem more biased towards revenue generation than safety concerns.
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I think there's one big thing causing people to be so biased towards option 1.
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However, I think your analysis is a bit biased towards quantity, not quality.
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My other immediate impression is that the list is biased towards the first half of the decade.
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And our mind is always biased towards prioritizing what feels good.
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As the "victim," she is definitely biased towards her own viewpoint.
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But suffice to say, the conversation has been heavily biased towards positive stories.
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But isn't the problem as well the fact that you know, we're just more biased towards people who look like us, sound like us, come from similar communities.
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If I sound biased towards Ducky and Becky, it's because I am.
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With time, an observer may become biased towards particular behaviors and seek those behaviors more closely while overlooking other behaviors.
Academic text (2006)
Synonyms
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1.0
Not treating people the same or following the rules
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Showing strong support for one side and not being fair
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4.0
Showing unfair favor to one person, group, or side
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To give an advantage to one person or group over others
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Treating people unfairly because of their race, sex, age, or religion
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Favoring one side or person rather than being fair
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Not fair because it helps only one person, group, or view
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Having an unfair dislike for a person or group because of who they are
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Showing unfair support for one person or group
Showing unfair opinions about people before knowing them
Giving unfair support to one side in a report or argument
Antonyms
How Biased
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning is directly derivable from 'biased' (favoring one side unfairly) combined with 'toward' (directed at/with respect to), so a learner who knows both words can infer the phrase denotes showing unfair preference for a person, group, or viewpoint. This adjective + preposition composition is a common, cross-linguistic pattern in English and is therefore readily understandable to B1 learners.
Etymology
The phrase biased towards comes from a simple image: imagine a board that is slanted so everything rolls to one side, the board is biased and leans towards that side. So, if a person or system leans this way, it gives one side an advantage, and biased towards means 'showing an unfair preference'.