prefer

"But I'd prefer to be on 10% and looking at winning 80 seats than on 15% and winning four."

From BBC ● Sep. 18, 2026

But the AI companies prefer the bland, vague aligned and nonaligned.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 17, 2026

They are just true for the same reason — and it isn’t the one Disney would prefer people believe.

From Salon ● Sep. 15, 2026

Some parents say they prefer this method to a 3D model, because they can get more detail from audio description of the image than from physical touch.

From BBC ● Sep. 12, 2026

“I thought you’d prefer a dividend of three.”

From "Beasts of Prey" by Ayana Gray

She dislikes brunch and instead prefers having lunch by herself at the bar of a restaurant, where she can chat with the bartender and eavesdrop on others’ conversations.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 12, 2026

Vinny, short for Vincent van Gogh, gets nervous and prefers shorter, quieter walks, and Macaroni, named after Fleetwood Mac, makes the stroller a tight squeeze for two cats.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 8, 2026

The market-intelligence team there likes going long the Nasdaq-100 and short the Russell 2000 and prefers the “Magnificent Seven”

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 1, 2026

Barcola, who will wear the number 29 shirt at Anfield, prefers to play on the left wing but can operate across the forward line.

From BBC ● Aug. 31, 2026

He’s fifteen and prefers groaning to actual human words.

From "South of Somewhere" by Kalena Miller

CelcomDigi is preferred over Maxis, with greater scope for earnings to improve as merger-related cost savings aren’t fully reflected in forecasts, she says.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 14, 2026

One briefing document, dated 10 September 1998, reported Bin Laden's preferred location for a strike was within the US, with Washington a prime target.

From BBC ● Sep. 11, 2026

Others said their children had nothing to do with the trauma of Sept. 11, that they preferred not to discuss it with them.

From Slate ● Sep. 11, 2026

And, in a nod to MLB, LA28 organizers scheduled the baseball competition in a preferred window, starting before any competition in gymnastics, swimming and track and field.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 10, 2026

It was how the ancestors preferred to communicate.

From "A Girl Named Disaster" by Nancy Farmer

Adult cats, specifically, rarely meow to one another, instead preferring other vocal intonations or facial signifiers.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 9, 2026

Mr. Warsh seems particularly hostile to that kind of talk, preferring to let markets guess.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 25, 2026

"This excess in supply is also likely an additional factor serving to weigh on global sovereign debt markets with some investors preferring to invest in Big Tech as opposed to indebted sovereigns."

From Barron's ● Aug. 21, 2026

Teng mostly avoids on-camera interviews with her subjects, preferring to watch them interacting with patients or in the operating room.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 21, 2026

Kaede remained out on the deck for the three-hour crossing, preferring the salty sting of the wind in her face to the cramped warmth down below.

From "Huntress" by Malinda Lo