Thesaurus / predilection
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That predilection toward contextual and time-of-day targeting in place of audience targeting likely offsets any urgency to embrace tracking alternatives for the publisher.
MEDIA BRIEFING: AFTER GOOGLE’S COOKIE REPRIEVE, PUBLISHERS’ IDENTITY TECH ADOPTION SLOWS TO A CRAWLTIM PETERSONSEPTEMBER 9, 2021DIGIDAYThe wife of a falangist officer in Talavera had a similar predilection, though she also shouted “Viva Franco” as she fired.
MY FATHER FLED FASCISM IN SPAIN—AND TAUGHT ME HOW LIES CAN DESTROY A DEMOCRACYSEBASTIAN JUNGERMAY 19, 2021TIMEBefore that, she was a biology student with a predilection for fungi, and before that a jungle-trained member of the Air Force.
SHARON MATOLA, DEVOTED ZOOKEEPER AND CONSERVATIONIST, DIES AT 66EMILY LANGERMARCH 31, 2021WASHINGTON POSTThe Bush women were not destined to break the mold — only to maintain it and shape it ever so gently with their own style, personality and predilections.
FOR THREE GENERATIONS OF BUSH WOMEN, PERSONAL PAIN AND A PUBLIC SPOTLIGHTJANE EISNERMARCH 19, 2021WASHINGTON POST“You followed that precedent, and you did so as a jurist rather than following whatever personal predilection might have otherwise guided you or any other member of the panel,” Lee said.
BARRETT CONFIRMATION HEARING DAY THREE: BARRETT DECLINES TO SAY WHETHER IT’S WRONG TO SEPARATE MIGRANT CHILDREN FROM PARENTSDEREK HAWKINS, SEUNG MIN KIM, ANN MARIMOW, KAROUN DEMIRJIANOCTOBER 14, 2020WASHINGTON POSTSome of them might have a predilection for Germany; but such predilections were subordinate to a stronger feeling.
THE HISTORY OF ENGLAND FROM THE ACCESSION OF JAMES II.THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAYWith his usual predilection for fruit, Phil went off and picked a quart of marsh-berries.
GOLD-SEEKING ON THE DALTON TRAILARTHUR R. THOMPSONThe simple unexaggerated truth is that Chopin had always a predilection for, and felt more at home among, his compatriots.
FREDERICK CHOPIN AS A MAN AND MUSICIANFREDERICK NIECKSLiszt gives us all the desirable information as to Chopin's predilection in this respect.
FREDERICK CHOPIN AS A MAN AND MUSICIANFREDERICK NIECKSChopin's predilection for the fashionable salon society led him to neglect the society of artists.
FREDERICK CHOPIN AS A MAN AND MUSICIANFREDERICK NIECKSWORDS RELATED TO PREDILECTION
- bent
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- chauvinism
- discrimination
- disposition
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