prefer
Example Sentences
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Some residents objected at the time, preferring the former name of Army Street.
“I’d much prefer the carrot, but I’m not afraid of the stick,” he said.
The recent rally in Occidental stock has meant that Berkshire’s equity warrants that it got as a bonus as part of the preferred deal in 2019 are back in the money.
From Barron's
The government in return received warrants to acquire nearly 80% of the companies’ common shares as well as a new class of “senior” preferred stock.
From Barron's
Or, as the writer John Updike once confessed, “I don’t like meat to look like animals. I prefer it in the form of sausages, hamburgers and meat loaf, far removed from the living thing.”
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
