preferable

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A concession is preferable to ending up in court in an attempt to retain the deposit or, worse, having to put the home back on the market and hope another comparable offer comes in soon.

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While it is preferable for crypto to be under rather than outside the regulatory umbrella, until the industry is comprehensively regulated, new and dangerous risks will continue entering the financial system.

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Copper mining stocks, rather than diversified miners, are preferable, the analysts write.

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Cash today is obviously preferable to a promise that money will come through in the future.

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Kenyon’s dig at “uproarious pedantry” nods to James’s intellectual pretensions, which some courtiers derided—even though a learned monarch seems preferable to an ignorant one.

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