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preferred

adjective as in favorite, chosen

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A short-term memory circuit, for example, will remain in a single preferred state until a new stimulus comes along, causing it to settle into a new activity state.

At a Las Vegas rally in late August, the group appeared with Trump on-stage while Happy Dad promo girls handed out hard seltzers to the crowd outside; a month later in the same city, Forgeard endorsed Trump to a stadium crowd, then did some fan-service about taxes on Zyn, the preferred nicotine source of the American right’s angry young flat-brims.

From Salon

He told Radio WM there were "lots of decisions" made in the Budget which he would have preferred "not to have had to make".

From BBC

"This was a pilot study to start looking at implications of these medications and get in the ballpark of understanding which broad categories of food are more or less preferred after starting the medication," said senior author Brian Roe, professor in the Department of Agricultural, Environmental and Development Economics at The Ohio State University.

As to the departures of so many key people, Verstappen says: "I am not going to lie. I would have naturally preferred people to stay."

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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