preferable

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Preferable as a greater emphasis on robotics might be, leaders are unlikely to stop insisting on going places because we can.

From Washington Post • Jan. 31, 2020

Preferable to that of the men who called her mermaid and the women who swept up her footprints or put mirrors on her door.

From "Song of Solomon" by Toni Morrison

"Preferable," adds Evelyn, "for cleansing the passages, and sharpening appetite, to most of our hotter herbs, and salad ingredients."

From Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure by Fernie, William Thomas

Preferable to the distilled for a perfume, or for culinary purposes.

From The Whitehouse Cookbook (1887) Cooking, Toilet and Household Recipes, Menus, Dinner-Giving, Table Etiquette, Care of the Sick, Health Suggestions, Facts Worth Knowing, Etc., Etc. The Whole Comprising a Comprehensive Cyclopedia of Information for the Home by Gillette, F. L. (Fanny Lemira)

Preferable then would he have deemed his fate had a warrior's death left him a claim to the narrow territory of a grave within the soil which the king had given him to defend.

From Twice Told Tales by Hawthorne, Nathaniel