forbidden words: confirmation bias

confirmation n. 1 The newspaper received confirmation of the story: substantiation, verification, corroboration, authentication, validation, proof. 2 The executive committee’s choice of location requires confirmation by a majority of club members: acceptance, approval, endorsement, ratification, sanction; assent, agreement.
Ant 1 denial, repudiation, refutation, contradiction, disavowal, recantation. 2  rejection, refusal, disapproval, cancellation, annulment.

from – Family Word Finder: Reader’s Digest. The Reader’s Digest Association, 1975.

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bias n. 1 Some people have a bias against foreigners. The pianist has a bias for Chopin: prejudice, leaning, inclination, bent, predilection, proneness, propensity, proclivity, tendency, feeling; fixed idea, preconceived idea, preconception, narrow view, slant, one-sidedness, unfairness, narrow-mindedness; bigotry, intolerance, partiality. 2 The dress was cut on the bias: angle, slant, diagonal line.
—adj. 3 Don’t let his insults bias you against her.  prejudice.
Ant. 1 fairness, impartiality, dispassionateness, objectivity; open-mindedness, tolerance.

from – Family Word Finder: Reader’s Digest. The Reader’s Digest Association, 1975.

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confirmation bias n. Psychology. bias that results from the tendency to process and analyze information in such a way that it supports one’s preexisting ideas and convictions:

Unfortunately, their experimental method was proven invalid due to confirmation bias.
Confirmation bias is a major issue when we get all our news from social media sites.

form – Dictionary.com | Meanings & Definitions of English Words. (2025b). In Dictionary.com.

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example sentences: confirmation bias

“Notwithstanding the spuriousness of the analogy, she goes on to use a kind of feigned empathy to attack trans people and trans activists for “not living in the real world but in a walled city of their own confirmation bias.”
From Los Angeles Times

“He argued in a social media post that Latino politicians were using the term “to appease white rich progressives who think that is the term we use. It is a vicious circle of confirmation bias.”
From Los Angeles Times

“There are ripple effects across all the story’s players, touching on many aspects of our justice system, from substandard investigations that seed confirmation bias, to trials driven by political expediency and our need for good stories over the truth.
From Los Angeles Times

“Some studies have linked belief in horoscopes and zodiac signs to ‘confirmation bias’, the tendency to believe or remember information that aligns with our pre-existing beliefs, and interpret it selectively to support them.”
From BBC

“Experts also warned against confirmation bias.”
From New York Times

from – Dictionary.com | Meanings & Definitions of English Words. (2025b). In Dictionary.com.

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April 22, 2025
Hudson Valley, New York

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