partial to
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He smoked a pipe and was partial to poetry and gardening.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 28, 2026
I am partial to “Making It,” but “Ex-Friends,” published in 1999, may have the stronger claim to being the quintessential Podhoretz book.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 26, 2025
In another joint paper on “the illusion of validity,” that legendary duo posited that an apparent similarity between two unrelated events, a parchment-paper test, makes us partial to seemingly endless, overconfident prophesies of disaster.
From MarketWatch • Oct. 20, 2025
From Jerry Maguire and King Richard to The Blind Side, the Oscars have always been partial to a sports biopic.
From BBC • Sep. 20, 2025
“I’m rather partial to Carols, myself, and that’s the best of reasons for my never hearing any.”
From "Great Expectations" by Charles Dickens
