preference
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The cosmic microwave background — the afterglow of the Big Bang — shows a small but persistent asymmetry: a preference for one spatial orientation over its mirror image.
From Science Daily • May 22, 2026
Increasingly a sinister hue attaches to Beijing’s preference for “open weight” models.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 19, 2026
“What we don’t know is how much of this preference is meant as a counterweight to incoming Fed Chair Kevin Warsh’s presumed dovish bias,” LeBas said.
From MarketWatch • May 19, 2026
They rank candidates in order of preference and a contender needs 50 percent to win.
From Barron's • May 16, 2026
Although his income was small, he had no taste for luxury—his experience in the monastery had solidified his natural asceticism while it developed his preference for solitude.
From "The Bluest Eye" by Toni Morrison
Vocabulary lists containing preference
Trumps
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"A Poem for My Librarian, Mrs. Long," Vocabulary from the poem
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Geography and World Regions
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