prefer

Example Sentences

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Their waiter Amir, who preferred not to share his last name, ferried packed peach-and-pineapple hookahs and tall glasses of pressed watermelon juice from the cafe’s kitchen to the table.

From Los Angeles Times

Energy is excluded from the core personal consumption expenditures index, the Fed’s preferred gauge of inflation.

From Barron's

Druckenmiller said such portfolio building would take into account a strengthening U.S. economy and potential for Fed rate cuts, though, given highly valued equities, he prefers longer positions in a more “eclectic basket of stocks.”

From MarketWatch

“Even after considering the preferred equity component in our original Heinz investment, our return has been well short of adequate.”

From MarketWatch

But the other siblings prefer not to draw attention to their candy royalty status, he said.

From The Wall Street Journal