partial to
Example Sentences
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Douglas doesn’t understand why his children are partial to their mother, his ex-wife, who was the source of so much instability and terror.
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 28, 2026
I don’t have a theory for Mr. Roberts’s motive, although I am partial to the principle known as Hanlon’s razor: Don’t attribute to malice what you can explain by stupidity.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 5, 2025
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
“If I were you,” he said, “I’d start in the nine hundreds, over there—but that’s because I’ve always been partial to biography.”
From "Okay for Now" by Gary D. Schmidt
