preference
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President Trump and Secretary of State Marco Rubio affirmed the administration’s preference for a negotiated agreement with Iran despite the skirmishing.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 28, 2026
Experiments in mice showed that animals deprived of protein developed a strong preference for essential amino acids, similar to the behavior seen in fruit flies.
From Science Daily • May 28, 2026
The U.S. market now features nearly 5,000 ETFs compared to about 4,000 individual stocks, reflecting a shift in investor preference.
From Barron's • May 26, 2026
One of the letters released as part of the documents expressed that Mountbatten-Windsor had a preference for visiting "the more sophisticated countries".
From BBC • May 21, 2026
Although his income was small, he had no taste for luxury—his experience in the monastery had solidified his natural asceticism while it developed his preference for solitude.
From "The Bluest Eye" by Toni Morrison
Vocabulary lists containing preference
Trumps
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"A Poem for My Librarian, Mrs. Long," Vocabulary from the poem
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Geography and World Regions
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