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
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
