prefer
Example Sentences
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Like where they prefer to sit in a movie theater — centered in a row or on an aisle?
From Los Angeles Times
Headline trading profit—a company preferred metric—was 159 million pounds compared with 170 million pounds.
When it comes to honouring theses soldiers as military heroes, she prefers to look to the future.
From BBC
It seemed to strongly prefer my dominant right hand; my left, though free, found it hard to hold a cup of tea steady enough to reach my office without sloshing.
The Fed predicted banks might prefer the greater safety of reserve balances as a way to satisfy stricter capital-adequacy regulations.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
