preferential
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Preferential voting, in which voters rank their choices, means that voters can say more about how they think than a single marking next to one candidate or party can convey.
From Washington Post • May 24, 2022
Preferential tax rates and the ability to time transactions mitigate this second layer.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 18, 2016
Preferential treatment makes for bad feelings in any line of work.
From Golf Digest • May 10, 2016
Preferential rents of $275 to $425 a square foot, about one-third the going rate above ground, don’t hurt.
From New York Times • Oct. 7, 2014
What is it that we risk losing as long as we refuse to accept the principle of Preferential Trade, and will certainly lose in the long run if we persist in that refusal?
From Constructive Imperialism by Milner, Viscount
Vocabulary lists containing preferential
Unequal: A Story of America
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Novel Study: Long Walk to Freedom, Parts Eight–Eleven
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