would sooner
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I’d wager a wolf would sooner recognize a sheep as one of its own than a grinning pug.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 28, 2025
Stayed on nicely when third at Tramore on New Year's Day but pulled up in the Ultima Chase at Cheltenham last month and would sooner be with one of the others than Crooner.
From BBC ● Apr. 11, 2024
And young people these days seeking fortunes would sooner head to the Silicon Valley than pick up a gold pan.
From New York Times ● Apr. 22, 2023
Yet, even after being expelled back into Mexico, he and other asylum seekers expressed enthusiasm that their conditions would, sooner or later, improve under the new administration.
From Reuters ● Jan. 21, 2021
“I would sooner cut off my right hand than ask the ballot for the black man and not the woman,” she wrote to abolitionist Wendell Phillips.
From "Votes for Women!" by Winifred Conkling
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