partial to
Example Sentences
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Thucydides was partial to naturalistic explanation and, no stranger to eclipses himself, might well have offered Pericles’ nervous helmsman a cloak.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 10, 2026
In another joint paper on “the illusion of validity,” that legendary duo posited that an apparent similarity between two unrelated events, a parchment-paper test, makes us partial to seemingly endless, overconfident prophesies of disaster.
From MarketWatch • Oct. 20, 2025
From Jerry Maguire and King Richard to The Blind Side, the Oscars have always been partial to a sports biopic.
From BBC • Sep. 20, 2025
I’m partial to something that's less opaque to the ordinary citizen, things like citizens' assemblies or “micropublics,” which are more popular in Europe but not well known in America.
From Salon • Apr. 26, 2025
“We’re partial to poetry here. Nothing after the nineteenth century. The greatest poets worked then. I got something for you.”
From "The Stars Beneath Our Feet" by David Barclay Moore
