partial to
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Campos-Duffy also weighed in, praising Pratt’s debate performance while adding, “I’m very partial to politicians coming out of reality television.”
From Salon ● May 18, 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
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
Mrs. Brown held her front door open and said, “Come on in and pick which one n’em pies you’s partial to, ’Lijah.”
From "Elijah of Buxton" by Christopher Paul Curtis
