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verb

past tense of prejudice
as in biased
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 prejudiced
Adjective
The Foundation to Combat Antisemitism, founded by Kraft, says 10% of U.S. adult males are blatantly prejudiced against Jewish people and tend to be outspoken about it. Jessica Golden, CNBC, 10 Oct. 2024 Certainly, many a prejudiced lender can hide behind this data black hole, but some more positive trends are also obscured. Michael Del Castillo, Fortune, 3 Oct. 2024 In essence, bias occurs when an algorithm systematically produces unfair or prejudiced outcomes. Vasyl Rakivnenko, Forbes, 1 Oct. 2024 This idea that Democrats are retrograde and prejudiced has been pervasive here, not just in Junior’s speech. Anita Chabria, Los Angeles Times, 18 July 2024 See all Example Sentences for prejudiced 
Recent Examples of Synonyms for prejudiced
Adjective
  • Ode to Lucy’s Pelvis Adrienne Gruber O wondrous one, your bipedal swag, terrestrial locomotion, partial appendages revealed, brain a soft sponge, size of an acorn, still waiting for that growth spurt 3.2 million years later.
    Max Ufberg, hazlitt.net, 10 Jan. 2025
  • In total, at least 24 school districts have announced full or partial closures, according to the LA County Office of Education.
    Sarah Rumpf-Whitten, Fox News, 9 Jan. 2025
Adjective
  • The narrow edge is expected to get even slimmer when two Republican members of congress join Trump’s cabinet.
    Dave Goldiner, New York Daily News, 13 Jan. 2025
  • But there are big stumbling blocks, including the narrow window to reach a deal and the widely varied value of the app.
    Auzinea Bacon, CNN, 13 Jan. 2025
Adjective
  • Both saw themselves as outsiders in a hostile environment.
    Ruth Margalit, The New Yorker, 13 Jan. 2025
  • Aber’s book is successful in showing that self-hatred is the fruit not of a few particular traumas but rather of a hostile environment’s erosive drip on the psyche.
    Jasmine Vojdani, Vulture, 13 Jan. 2025
Adjective
  • Get Into the Holiday Spirit by Watching Mariah Carey Bake Christmas Cookies Famous for its iconic title song, 9 to 5 follows Dolly Parton, Lily Tomlin and Jane Fonda as a trio of fiery secretaries who topple the tyranny of their sexist, bigoted boss (Dabney Coleman).
    Lauren Sanchez, Vogue, 19 Dec. 2024
  • Two Hindu Americans who made presidential runs—Tulsi Gabbard and Vivek Ramaswamy—have already endured a litany of bigoted attacks.
    Gordon G. Chang, Newsweek, 12 Dec. 2024
Adjective
  • However, with inadequate orchestration and data training, AI’s outcomes will quickly deteriorate and can lead to a host of issues such as incorrect, skewed, or biased results, as evidenced in the above examples.
    Gary Drenik, Forbes, 9 Jan. 2025
  • In his announcement, Zuckerberg laid blame on the legacy media, fact-checkers and Meta’s own employees, calling them politically biased.
    Brandy Zadrozny, NBC News, 8 Jan. 2025
Adjective
  • But parochial political feuds and byzantine zoning codes have hampered LA’s efforts to get more new housing off the ground.
    Carly Stern, Vox, 6 Dec. 2024
  • Given the court's significance in international law, this case could have more of an impact than COP on countries' behavior and corporate policies — and on future legal action, compared to past more parochial climate cases.
    Andrew Freedman, Axios, 3 Dec. 2024
Verb
  • But now Miami would have to be convinced of bringing in the 31-year-old Beal, who, by picking up his $57 million player option for 2026-27, is still owed $110 million for two seasons after this one.
    Zach Harper, The Athletic, 6 Jan. 2025
  • Once and for all, you will be convinced that ranch and pickles are the perfect pairing.
    Kaitlyn Yarborough, Southern Living, 5 Jan. 2025
Adjective
  • Both Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris and President-elect Donald Trump often presented distorted views of the health of the labor market, with the Democratic angle largely focusing solely on headline labor market growth and Trump mischaracterizing the gains solely as a pandemic rebound.
    Derek Saul, Forbes, 10 Jan. 2025
  • The track is a nearly motionless waltz, with dark ambient stirrings of distorted guitar, wafting toward relief or death.
    Jon Pareles, New York Times, 10 Jan. 2025

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“Prejudiced.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/prejudiced. Accessed 21 Jan. 2025.

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