would sooner
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I’d wager a wolf would sooner recognize a sheep as one of its own than a grinning pug.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 28, 2025
Mr Marshall, 48, does not want to know yet if he has Huntington's, saying: "I would sooner not know and not have a fear of what might be ahead if I do have it."
From BBC • Oct. 22, 2024
But Niinami said expectations were growing that the BOJ would sooner or later end its expansionist experiment.
From Reuters • Jan. 24, 2023
But she also said that she wouldn’t get weekly tests unless vaccinated workers also had to: She would sooner sell her house and move.
From New York Times • Sep. 26, 2021
I would sooner my men die fighting for the Ned’s little girl than alone and hungry in the snow, weeping tears that freeze upon their cheeks.
From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin
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