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Climate change likely plays a role, since they prefer warmer water, but the farmed oysters introduced in the 1970s and ’80s may have helped by cleaning up the river.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 29, 2026

Healthy mice instinctively prefer darker environments and avoid brightly illuminated spaces.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 28, 2026

The long story short is that we haven’t traveled very far thematically since Thomas Jefferson said that timid men prefer despotism — although that was around 250 years ago.

From Salon ● Aug. 28, 2026

Like the authorities, recreational boaters on the lake prefer to point the finger elsewhere.

From Barron's ● Aug. 27, 2026

“I do appreciate that you tagged that shark. In fact, it’s kind of a miracle. But I would prefer if you left the job to Sookie from here on. Okay?”

From "The Line Tender" by Kate Allen

Figure out what is affecting her performance and ask her how she prefers to receive feedback.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 29, 2026

Barcola is right footed but prefers to play on the left wing and his likely arrival adds further doubt around Cody Gakpo's future at Anfield.

From BBC ● Aug. 27, 2026

But Scott says he prefers to make films about AI rather than use it himself.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 26, 2026

The type of “small calibrations” the Fed traditionally prefers wouldn’t be sufficient “because you’d have an underlying dynamic that you needed to treat,” she said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 12, 2026

A fifteen-year-old girl, Mery Gabriela Posas Izaguirre, or Gabi, as she prefers, tells Enrique her story.

From "Enrique's Journey" by Sonia Nazario

But I preferred a minor beat a few minutes later when a character puts down their gun and picks up a guitar.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 28, 2026

On Wednesday, the Fed's preferred inflation gauge clocked in at 3.7 percent, down 0.4 percentage points from May, when it hit a three-year high.

From Barron's ● Aug. 27, 2026

Nvidia also indicated that it preferred the capacity to be distributed among several smaller AI companies rather than leased to a single large customer, the people said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 27, 2026

During his campaign for the Fed chair job, he advocated for rate cuts — at the time, the White House’s preferred strategy.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 27, 2026

She would have preferred tea, personally, but milk and a biscuit did offer some comfort.

From "The Interrupted Tale" by Maryrose Wood

Mladić struggled to come to terms with her suicide, preferring wild conspiracy theories which blamed the tragedy on everyone but himself.

From BBC ● Aug. 27, 2026

Clients have drifted away from Song Oh-soon's fortune-telling village on the edge of Seoul, preferring online AI-powered divination to the centuries-old prophesying tradition still practised there.

From Barron's ● Aug. 13, 2026

And he said he did not have any conversations with Tigers president of baseball operations Scott Harris about preferring to be traded to the Dodgers.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 4, 2026

Mr. Vance has blown off this important if unsung duty, preferring to stay in the spotlight.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 23, 2026

And so when he turned four, Milton renounced his cousin’s companionship, preferring to play with neighborhood boys.

From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides