preferred
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Tomlin said he preferred playing in creative mode, as opposed to survival, hardcore or adventure modes.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026
"While voluntary measures remain our preferred approach, we cannot rule out compulsory redundancies if the required savings are not achieved," they said.
From BBC ● Sep. 30, 2026
Investors are awaiting Wednesday's release of personal consumption expenditure data for October, with the Fed's preferred gauge of inflation likely to play a key role at its policy meeting at the end of October.
From Barron's ● Sep. 30, 2026
But even keeping that in mind, some would argue that these bots are customizable enough that you could hack and change them anyway to your preferred specifications, like using first-person pronouns.
From Slate ● Sep. 29, 2026
While French soldiers engaged in “acts of collective indiscipline,” as their commanders preferred to say, the Russian army was collapsing and Russia itself was in turmoil.
From "The War to End All Wars: World War I" by Russell Freedman
Vocabulary lists containing preferred
Sula
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"Speaking with Hands"
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