preferences

Example Sentences

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For instance, if you plan to retire in 2040, select a fund for a later year, making sure that the glide path aligns with your preferences.

From MarketWatch • Apr. 30, 2026

"Really the collapse of Claire's in the UK says a lot about how pre-teen and teen tastes and shopping preferences have evolved in the last decade," she says.

From BBC • Apr. 28, 2026

In some restaurants, children are eating tasting menus, sampling raw fish, developing preferences that would have once been considered decidedly adult.

From Salon • Apr. 25, 2026

“The top priority in admissions decisions should be academic achievement,” the authors write, and they recommend that Yale “reduce preferences for special classes of applicants.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 19, 2026

On the car radio he played with relish the twang-twang blues type of music and his TV preferences were westerns.

From "Black Like Me" by John Howard Griffin