preferable

Example Sentences

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If you can swing it, check out local hotels for separate lodgings, which may be preferable to your overcrowded childhood home or sleeping on a couch in someone’s living room.

From Salon

According to a poll published on Thursday by El Pais daily, almost one-quarter of Spaniards aged 18 to 28 believed an authoritarian regime may "sometimes" be preferable to a democracy.

From Barron's

And while actual human contact is preferable, it has real drawbacks.

From The Wall Street Journal

But he suggested that such a deal was preferable to the kind of private equity investment that English rugby union has accepted.

From BBC

Working with regional allies is preferable as a policy, but sometimes unilateral U.S. force is necessary against jihadists.

From The Wall Street Journal