partial to
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I'm more partial to Per Sempre Sì, a throwback disco song from veteran Italian star Sal Da Vinci.
From BBC • May 8, 2026
Thucydides was partial to naturalistic explanation and, no stranger to eclipses himself, might well have offered Pericles’ nervous helmsman a cloak.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 10, 2026
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
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
“The captain is partial to images over words,” the navigator whispers to me, “because he can’t read.”
From "Challenger Deep" by Neal Shusterman
