by preference
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Drafts followed, with Harari ended up handling more of the trial scenes, by preference.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 13, 2023
Voters order the nominees by preference; if one movie comes away with more than 50% of the first-place votes in the first round, that’s the winner.
From Seattle Times • Mar. 12, 2023
The poll asked respondents to rank candidates by preference, in line with Alaska’s new “ranked choice” voting rules.
From Reuters • Aug. 16, 2022
Rather than caucus, voters could rank three to five candidates by preference.
From Washington Post • Feb. 20, 2020
An immediate consequence was that one of them attained to higher eminence and was called the bishop by preference.
From Life of Luther with several introductory and concluding chapters from general church history by Just, Gustav
