partial to
Example Sentences
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I'm more partial to Per Sempre Sì, a throwback disco song from veteran Italian star Sal Da Vinci.
From BBC • May 8, 2026
Douglas doesn’t understand why his children are partial to their mother, his ex-wife, who was the source of so much instability and terror.
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 28, 2026
I am partial to “Making It,” but “Ex-Friends,” published in 1999, may have the stronger claim to being the quintessential Podhoretz book.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 26, 2025
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
But I suppose if you’re partial to swallowing horseflies whole, it’s a pretty good sign that smartness ain’t one of the things you been ’specially blessed with.
From "Elijah of Buxton" by Christopher Paul Curtis
