How to Use prejudice in a Sentence
- He has a prejudice against fast-food restaurants.
- We tend to make these kinds of decisions according to our own prejudices.
- The organization fights against racial prejudice.
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Leave your prejudices at the door.
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Scott Roxborough,
HollywoodReporter,
16 Jan. 2026
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That’s the bias, that’s the prejudice.
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Jackie Strause,
HollywoodReporter,
8 Oct. 2025
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Her dismissal with prejudice means the case is over for good.
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Nancy Dillon,
Rolling Stone,
13 Feb. 2024
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It was dismissed with prejudice, so it may not be brought back.
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Becca Savransky,
Idaho Statesman,
9 June 2026
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Under the law, a claim of prejudice against the judge must be made.
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Megan Crepeau,
chicagotribune.com,
13 July 2017
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Thanks to all that fought for this, braving the worst sort of prejudice.
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Dom Calicchio,
Fox News,
6 Sep. 2018
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Trying to win by prejudice doesn’t work.
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Julie Orringer,
Travel + Leisure,
9 June 2026
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But that's only one of the food prejudices Chang has his eye on.
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Luke Darby,
GQ,
3 May 2018
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But the deep well of prejudice against black hair is just beginning to be drained.
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Marina Lopes,
Washington Post,
19 June 2018
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There was a lot of prejudice, a lot of no-nos, a lot of barriers to break.
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Jon Pareles,
New York Times,
18 Mar. 2024
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But the pains of prejudice persist to this day — in the church and the wider culture.
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David Noyce,
The Salt Lake Tribune,
1 Sep. 2022
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The case has now been dismissed with prejudice, so it can't be refiled.
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Brendan Morrow,
The Week,
29 July 2022
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Yet, a few schools have been able to uniquely transcend this prejudice.
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Manavi Kapur,
Quartz India,
29 Dec. 2019
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The case was dismissed without prejudice, so it can be filed again.
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Maya Wilkins,
Chicago Tribune,
8 Jan. 2026
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His poem suffers from the painful prejudices of his age.
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Literary Hub,
23 Apr. 2026
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The charges were dismissed with prejudice, meaning they can't be brought back to court.
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Emma Austin,
The Courier-Journal,
4 Nov. 2020
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That is a prejudice being brought.
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CBS News,
28 June 2026
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There is no longer any suffering, prejudice and crime.
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Brian Davids,
HollywoodReporter,
10 Nov. 2025
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Without a cure or a vaccine, this kind of prejudice is its own type of disease.
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Connie Wang,
refinery29.com,
11 Mar. 2020
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The cases were dismissed on all claims, with prejudice.
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Literary Hub,
16 Dec. 2025
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If the state can't find the lawyers, the charges should all be dismissed with prejudice, the lawsuit says.
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Bruce Vielmetti,
Journal Sentinel,
24 Aug. 2022
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Russia and the native prejudices of the deplorables get some of it as well.
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Michael Brendan Dougherty,
National Review,
13 Feb. 2018
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Such good humor is a salve to the novel’s abiding tragedy of loss and prejudice.
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Ron Charles,
Washington Post,
6 June 2023
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But just a few days into the trial, a judge dismissed the case with prejudice.
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Gillian Telling,
PEOPLE,
17 Apr. 2026
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Wall dismissed the suit with prejudice, meaning it cannot be refiled in state court.
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Dennis Romero,
NBC News,
9 July 2023
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Again, this is not to compare this damage to the life-long impact of racial prejudice.
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Elizabeth Hernandez,
The Denver Post,
19 Sep. 2019
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Growing up in an era of widespread prejudice, some stayed in the closet.
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Robert Weisman,
BostonGlobe.com,
9 June 2018
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The song is about not being prejudiced.
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Dan Beck,
Variety,
21 Oct. 2025
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The goal is to avoid potential jurors who may be prejudiced, the law firm said.
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Tiffani Jackson,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
15 June 2026
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The Fed is prejudiced against vibrant growth.
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Steve Forbes,
Forbes.com,
13 Aug. 2025
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The school certainly wouldn’t be prejudiced against him.
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Lea Veloso,
StyleCaster,
22 Sep. 2025
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To them, this is a matter of being fair and not being prejudiced against either side.
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Aaron Blake,
Washington Post,
14 Dec. 2017
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Most defendants wear civilian clothes so the jury won't be prejudiced against them.
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CBS News,
10 Sep. 2019
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For those reasons, the court ruled, the errors didn't prejudice Hammonds.
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Ivana Hrynkiw,
AL.com,
4 Nov. 2017
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No papers have yet been published, amid calls from the police not to release anything that might prejudice their probe.
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Joe Mayes,
Fortune,
23 Feb. 2026
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These people can’t or won’t stop trying to prejudice their children against their former partner.
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Barbara Bradley Hagerty,
The Atlantic,
24 Nov. 2020
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Is the Hall of Fame prejudiced, or was baseball prejudiced and racist?
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Josh Rottenberg,
latimes.com,
19 Apr. 2018
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Now, whether that prejudices them one way or the other in the investigation remains to be seen.
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Peter Nicholas,
WSJ,
21 July 2017
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The records also would prejudice Christian's right to a fair trial, Scholl said.
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Maxine Bernstein,
OregonLive.com,
20 Oct. 2017
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But during trial, he's allowed to wear normal clothes to avoid prejudicing the jury against him.
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Tresa Baldas,
Detroit Free Press,
7 Mar. 2024
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Once charges have been brought, British media law prohibits any reporting about the case that might prejudice a trial.
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Kimiko De Freytas-Tamura,
New York Times,
18 June 2016
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Defense attorneys have argued bringing this stuff in will prejudice the jury against them.
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Nate Gartrell,
The Mercury News,
9 Feb. 2024
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This is yet another reason that a nine-month delay of the trial date would prejudice Plaintiffs.
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Lauryn Overhultz,
FOXNews.com,
9 Apr. 2026
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This is the kind of demagoguery that could prejudice a prosecution, or mobilize a mob.
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Charles P. Pierce,
Esquire,
2 Apr. 2012
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By not releasing footage, potential jurors would not be prejudiced before a trial, the chief said.
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Jon Bleiweis,
baltimoresun.com,
10 May 2017
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Truth speaks for itself, and there has never been any question in my mind that the Red Sox management is prejudiced.
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Sridhar Pappu,
SI.com,
5 Oct. 2017
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The system is designed to favour electoral alliances which, on the face of it, should prejudice the stand-alone M5S. Yet all the projections of its effects give the M5S enough seats to prevent either left or right from winning a majority.
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The Economist,
31 Oct. 2017
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Doing so might help Ortiz avoid being prejudiced by the evidence against Clase.
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Zack Meisel,
New York Times,
11 Feb. 2026
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Merin argued that naming him as the property owner would distract the jury, and could prejudice jurors one way or the other.
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Cynthia Hubert,
sacbee,
23 Oct. 2017
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Other viral outbreaks have been met with xenophobia — the dislike of and prejudice against other countries.
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Sara Li,
Teen Vogue,
27 Feb. 2020
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With that in mind, the league and team might not want to risk prejudicing Williams’s criminal case by disciplining her for an unproven charge.
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Michael McCann,
SI.com,
15 July 2019
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But when judges were shown to have colluded with prosecutors to prejudice the former president, he was released from prison.
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Andrew Downie,
The Christian Science Monitor,
30 Sep. 2022
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Gillen and Sadow said the speech was designed to prejudice potential jurors against the defendants.
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Melissa Quinn,
CBS News,
1 Mar. 2024
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All of that will prejudice Johnson’s ability to receive a fair trial and mount a defense, his attorneys said.
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Amy Lavalley,
Chicago Tribune,
9 Aug. 2023
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The average person might be prejudiced, and what could be more unreasonable than prejudice?
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Nikhil Krishnan,
New Yorker,
20 Apr. 2026
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Any release of the files’ contents could manipulate public opinion and prejudice prospective jurors in the case.
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Sun Sentinel Editorial Board,
Sun Sentinel,
21 Jan. 2026
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The rule aims to allow for a more fair trial, where jury members are less likely to be prejudiced by media coverage or public discussion.
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Natasha Frost,
Quartz,
4 July 2019
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