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While Pelosi prefers to do a comprehensive relief package, one policy she is said to be considering is a $75 billion bill that would bolster coronavirus testing and tracing programs nationwide.

From Fortune

Viruses, which hijack cells to copy their proteins, have, predictably, evolved a taste for the same codons that human cells prefer.

I prefer to keep the mobile version on the left-hand side and desktop version of the source code on the right-hand side.

This easel-style calendar doesn’t ask a whole lot of you, and some people rightfully prefer their office supplies that way.

While companies still overwhelmingly prefer board candidates with prior public board experience—72% of this year’s new picks had that record—they’re slowly accepting different kinds of leaders.

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This final episode of Extras is the perfect Christmastime escape for those who prefer the bittersweet to the saccharine.

Environmentalists today generally prefer to limit roads and block new water projects, even in parched California.

We prefer to wave away the warning signs; like The Interview, Mulholland Drive was comfortably downplayed as over-the-top satire.

Both are offering original programing designed to be viewed however you prefer—one episode at a time or all at once.

And even those who consider themselves great patriots prefer to keep their savings in foreign currency.

We prefer the American volume of Hochelaga to the Canadian one, although both are highly interesting.

For instance, few workmen will take a holiday; they prefer a "day's out" or "play."

The Cockalorum pondered over this for a moment, and then murmuring, "I prefer croquet," floundered away through the waving grass.

The Russians, on the contrary, prefer orange-yellow transparent specimens.

It is immaterial to whom the transfer is made if the purpose be to prefer one creditor to another.

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On this page you'll find 108 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to prefer, such as: adopt, choose, go for, pick, promote, and put.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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