be partial to

He's a Montana man who longs for his ranch, so it follows that he'd be partial to home-cooked meals prepared with natural-as-possible ingredients.

From Salon ● Aug. 18, 2023

“I think he has, and I say that but I’m always going to be partial to our guys,” he said.

From Seattle Times ● Jul. 1, 2021

I understand the "NY" was the O.G. and they went back to it in 2000, but I'll always be partial to the script.

From Golf Digest ● Mar. 23, 2020

David Lansbury, Hauptmann Friedrich Muller in“War Horse”: BAM’s lineup is especially exciting this season, though I’d be partial to Maly Theater’s production of “Three Sisters,” perhaps my favorite play of all time.

From New York Times ● Feb. 23, 2012

The Emperor seems not to be partial to display, and a very characteristic anecdote in this respect, which does him great credit, is very generally reported.

From Narrative of the Circumnavigation of the Globe by the Austrian Frigate Novara, Volume I (Commodore B. Von Wullerstorf-Urbair,) Undertaken by Order of the Imperial Government in the Years 1857, 1858, & 1859, Under the Immediate Auspices of His I. and R. Highness the Archduke Ferdinand Maximilian, Commander-In-Chief of the Austrian Navy. by Karl Ritter von Scherzer