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
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
“Mrs. Yew's mother was partial to it, so I'd order it in for her. She passed away with a new jar barely touched.”
From "Black Swan Green" by David Mitchell
