Example Sentences

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The excursion is unusual for Rubio, who in nearly a year and a half on the job has preferred short, business-like trips and rarely done events outside of government meetings.

From Barron's • May 25, 2026

Hard Rock said the winner has preferred to remain anonymous, but acknowledged the bettor is a Florida resident and “fits the profile of a casual sports bettor.”

From MarketWatch • Apr. 27, 2026

Up until now Slot has preferred to rotate the two but this was the first time Liverpool fans got to see how they played alongside each other from the outset of a match.

From BBC • Oct. 22, 2025

He has preferred being driven around in colorful company cars—not the conventional black—and fashions himself as an outspoken technologist after earning his M.B.A. in Silicon Valley during the 1990s dot-com boom.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 8, 2025

He has preferred to lose with his own troops rather than to win with those of others, judging that to be no true victory which has been gained by means of foreign troops.

From "The Prince" by Niccolò Machiavelli