adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
heavily
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The problem of an influential tabloid press heavily biased towards one particular party is more difficult.
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Clearly one source is unreliable, and the interpretations which it offers are heavily biased .
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Export policy has been biased towards overseas customers.
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If your advisor is also selling financial products, you may get biased advice.
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Most newspapers are biased towards one political party or the other.
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Much of the information the clinics gave people was incomplete and biased in favour of educated middle-class clients.
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racially biased reporting
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Roughly four-fifths of Sun readers believed the paper was biased against the Labour party.
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The system is so biased that many citizens simply do not register to vote.
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There have been complaints about biased reporting in the tabloid press.
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University acceptance policies seem to be biased against minorities.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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I may be a little biased about this one, but I now consider it to be of a very high standard.
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In the report members of the police were accused of acting illegally and it was suggested that they were biased in favour of Inkatha.
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It was not intended to sound biased .
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Nor is the fact that a document is biased a reason for dismissing the document as worthless or unreliable.
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Still less can they accept impartial public broadcasting combined with a biased press and biased satellite television.
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When small samples are used to estimate population standard deviations, the results are biased in the direction of underestimation.