We should never place the preference of an adult over the safety and innocence of a child.
You wear a pin that adjusts the temperature, lighting, décor, and entertainment to your preference.
“Everyone has a preference,” the man says, probing Oberyn about whether he prefers the company of a man or a woman.
Do you have a preference among the three, and how does your preparation differ, depending on the medium?
Our political indolence and preference for yelling across the room rather than engaging hurts us every day.
How my heart rises at her preference of them to me, when she is convinced of their injustice to me!
Let us consider, again, how preference in a writer is established.
That would be showing a preference, and a preference is never fair.
All our reasonings a priori will never be able to show us any foundation for this preference.
In preference to talking to her, he preferred to stand a little way off and look at her.
mid-15c., "advancement in position or status;" 1650s as "act of prefering," from Middle French preference (14c., Modern French préférence), from Medieval Latin preferentia, from past participle stem of Latin praeferrere (see prefer). Sense of "that which one prefers" is from 1852.
