preferences

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Although fructose and glucose produced similar short-term effects on food intake, the mice eventually developed preferences that corresponded to the degree of AgRP neuron inhibition triggered by each sugar.

From Science Daily • Jun. 26, 2026

I did not ask to be born with the aesthetic preferences of a 12-year-old on 4chan, and yet, here we are.

From Slate • Jun. 14, 2026

It really depends on your taste preferences and how much spice you’re craving in the moment.

From Salon • Jun. 13, 2026

“Accommodating the changing needs and preferences of employees in a high-turnover industry is a complex optimization problem that has been challenging, even for sophisticated software to solve,” said Williams Woolley.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 10, 2026

This wasn’t just about record-buying preferences, either: being a composer in the twentieth century meant making career- defining choices that simply were not relevant to earlier generations.

From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall