preferred
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Minerva and Jose Corral of Corral Investments & Realty said they preferred most of Villanueva’s policies over those of Luna, particularly around the sheriff’s department’s handling of evictions.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 31, 2026
Moyes was guarded after the game and instead preferred to focus on a vital victory.
From BBC ● Oct. 30, 2026
“ECI, the Fed’s preferred measure of wage inflation, reaffirms other wage data that the labor market is not a source of inflationary pressures,” wrote Veronica Clark, an economist at Citi.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 30, 2026
These exceptions show that some crocodile relatives could evolve to handle different climates, even though most continued to follow their preferred warm conditions.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 30, 2026
“I would have preferred it my way, but hers is just as good.”
From "Night Owls" by A.R. Vishny
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