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Prefer in sentence

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Or, as some people, especially academics prefer, beauty is in the culturally conditioned eye of the beholder.
Now they've been asking a question since 1985: "How strongly do you prefer a first-born son?"
How much do you prefer a first-born son?
So when you say that you prefer George Clooney to Tom Hanks, due to his concern for the environment, is that really true?
PJ: And then sometimes, I will ask you why you prefer that face.
PJ: Why did you prefer that one?
And what we also found is that the participants often come to prefer the alternative, that they were led to believe they liked.
But you can understand why there may be forces in the breast-imaging world who prefer the status quo.
AK: Well actually I prefer to say that it's an object constructed out of wood and cloth with movement built into it to persuade you to believe that it has life.
And furthermore, there's some signs that really prefer the end of texts, such as this jar-shaped sign, and this sign, in fact, happens to be the most frequently occurring sign in the script.
There's something I'm developing here called social intensity syndrome, which tries to account for why guys really prefer male bonding over female mating.
The problem is they now prefer [the] asynchronistic Internet world to the spontaneous interaction in social relationships.
Instead, we prefer these really dazzling technological solutions, which cost a huge amount of money.
I prefer statistics, so that's what I'll do first.
But of course, we do have young people who would still prefer to smile, whether in a BMW or [on] a bicycle.
What do you prefer?
Babies seem to remember and prefer these tastes once they're out in the world.
See, instead, I'd prefer if we started thrifting.
You don't have millions and millions of dollars, but you can call your representatives, and you can remind them that you vote, and you can ask not to be treated like a thief, and you can suggest that you would prefer that the Internet not be broken.
"We'd prefer not to do that," says the content industries.
Which is why I prefer the Richard Wilk analogy of globalizing the local and localizing the global.
And for the kids who prefer to go off by themselves or just to work alone, those kids are seen as outliers often or, worse, as problem cases.
We trained hundreds of people to go to the wards and talk to people about the fact that they would die, and what would they prefer under those circumstances.
But what we find is that they prefer the pro-social token.
Women in Africa will tell you over and over again that what they prefer today is an injectable.
And this is a technique that I usually prefer in my work because people don't know they're being interviewed.
When they fly into our bedroom at night, they prefer to bite my wife.
This is, by the way, why people prefer Friday to Sunday.
It's a really curious fact, because Friday is a day of work and Sunday is a day of pleasure, so you'd assume that people will prefer Sunday, but they don't.
People prefer Friday because Friday brings with it the anticipation of the weekend ahead, all the plans that you have.
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