prefer
Example Sentences
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He preferred not to disclose whether Cargill lost money in Venezuela but it would be difficult to see how they avoided it.
From MarketWatch
Most of his classmates, himself included, preferred to listen to hip-hop back then.
From Los Angeles Times
Steel, a single preferred share, which gives him voting rights and a say in U.S.
From Barron's
Kirkness became attuned to the value of slack time, his preferred term, around the middle of last year.
That is the case with PCE inflation—the Federal Reserve’s preferred inflation metric—which relies on figures that another government stats agency, the Bureau of Labor Statistics, publishes earlier in its consumer- and producer-price indexes.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
