prefer

Example Sentences

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A 2025 Gallup poll found that the majority of Americans say they are ready to do away with the time shift, with 48% preferring standard time year round and 24% preferring daylight saving year round.

From Los Angeles Times

Jackson usually parks closer to center field, but his preferred parking spot was taken before school began in the morning.

From Los Angeles Times

"These are wide, long and deeply impacting events. That's why sometimes people prefer not to talk to others who aren't within the community itself."

From BBC

Seventy-four countries and 18 warships took part in the events, which Delhi described as a demonstration of its ambition to become the Indian Ocean's "preferred security partner".

From BBC

Because Noem was a train wreck we couldn’t help but watch, at a moment when the government would prefer we stop looking.

From Los Angeles Times