preferable
Example Sentences
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A private sale bails out Mr. Ergen but is still preferable to letting Mr. Ergen sit on unused spectrum.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 30, 2026
It’s distractingly eclectic but vastly preferable to sci-fi scores that just aim to sound, well, vast.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 18, 2026
"While a price increase for V-Bucks isn't ideal for players, it's preferable to something more extreme like making it a paid-for, rather than free-to-play game," she said.
From BBC • Mar. 10, 2026
And only one seems preferable for buyers and sellers in a housing market that’s been constrained by high interest rates and out-of-reach prices for several years.
From MarketWatch • Mar. 3, 2026
At that moment it seemed that any action under heaven would have been preferable to standing.
From "Native Son" by Richard Wright
Vocabulary lists containing preferable
Commonly Misspelled Words, List 3
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Florida's B.E.S.T. Common Suffixes: -able, -ible
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Novel Study: Anthem, Chapters 1–6
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