preferable

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Preferable as a greater emphasis on robotics might be, leaders are unlikely to stop insisting on going places because we can.

From Washington Post • Jan. 31, 2020

Preferable to that of the men who called her mermaid and the women who swept up her footprints or put mirrors on her door.

From "Song of Solomon" by Toni Morrison

Preferable is the term that has been used concerning architecture: Schelling, in his "Philosophie der Kunst," calls it "frozen music," a term ridiculed by Madame de Sta�l.

From Our Stage and Its Critics By "E.F.S." of "The Westminster Gazette" by Spence, Edward Fordham

"Preferable," adds Evelyn, "for cleansing the passages, and sharpening appetite, to most of our hotter herbs, and salad ingredients."

From Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure by Fernie, William Thomas

Preferable then would he have deemed his fate had a warrior's death left him a claim to the narrow territory of a grave within the soil which the king had given him to defend.

From Twice Told Tales by Hawthorne, Nathaniel