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In the way of all skilled storytelling, nobody stops to explain what it is, preferring to let us derive its meaning from context.

From Salon • Jun. 22, 2023

The elegiac poets avoided the use of is, preferring hic, ille, and iste.

From The Last Poems of Ovid by Akrigg, Mark Bear

If he is preferring his nephew to his brother, it is using the latter as ill as the rest of the world.

From Letters of Horace Walpole — Volume II by Walpole, Horace

All friendship is preferring the interest of a friend, to the neglect, or, perhaps, against the interest of others; so that an old Greek said, "He that has friends has no friend."

From Life of Johnson, Volume 3 1776-1780 by Hill, George Birkbeck Norman

The effect is in some measure plaintive, and gives the idea that the bird is preferring a petition.

From British Birds in their Haunts by Johns, Rev. C. A.