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prefer
verb as in favor; single out
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Example Sentences
As historian Ruth Ben-Ghiat wrote in the New York Times this week, authoritarians throughout history prefer the inexperienced and unqualified to those who know what they're doing.
Reeves would have preferred employers to squeeze pay settlements rather than raise prices or cut staff.
"Such jobs are not published anywhere," he said, adding that networks like WhatsApp were preferred.
And in addition to being wired to prefer people who are like us, we are also conditioned to believe that they pose less social threat because they feel more known to us, Hering says.
Concerns about cost, fitting Redick’s preferred style of play and the ripples from moving Davis — namely playing James major minutes at small forward — are being weighed.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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