preferentially
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Researchers have found the first geochemical evidence showing that chondrules were already being preferentially incorporated into solid bodies during the Solar System's first million years.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 23, 2026
"Instead, hydrogen moves preferentially along well-defined helical pathways embedded within an ordered carbon structure."
From Science Daily ● Apr. 21, 2026
Polar and nonpolar molecules rarely mix, because polar molecules preferentially attract one another via electrostatic interactions.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 17, 2025
The State Department, now run by former Florida Sen. Marco Rubio, manages visa processing and has pledged to lower wait times but it has also said it will not treat soccer fans preferentially.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 29, 2025
The variety selected for preferentially reproduces; it eventually becomes abundant; the variety selected against becomes rare and perhaps extinct.
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
