partial to
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There are lots of exercises for sharpening proprioception, but the surfing doctor is partial to bodies of water.
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 1, 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
The controversial 44-year-old is himself partial to a white Royals Royce and has a fleet of personalised luxury cars, some of which he has also started giving away as he gets in newer models.
From BBC • Jun. 21, 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
