Synonyms for preferred
pre·ferred

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1. preferable, preferredadjective

   more desirable than another

   "coffee is preferable to tea"; "Danny's preferred name is `Dan'"

   Synonyms:
   best-loved, pet, preferable, favored, favorite(a), preferent, favourite(a)

   Antonyms:
   undesirable, unloved, unwanted

2. favored, favorite(a), favourite(a), best-loved, pet, preferred, preferentadjective

   preferred above all others and treated with partiality

   "the favored child"

   Antonyms:
   unwanted, undesirable, unloved

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1. List of paraphrases for "preferred":

   favorite, favourite, privileged, preferable, preferential, preference, favoured, electedthe, preferably, liked, prefer, choice, favored, chosen, chose

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1. Thomas Briant:

   Adults will simply drive to adjacent cities to purchase their preferred tobacco products, it is likely that convenience stores in Beverly Hills will close because they rely on in-store tobacco sales for about one-third of their gross sales.

2. Alan Kennedy:

   ( N) either the Constitution nor Electoral Count Act offer any basis for claims by people who are not duly elected and certified presidential electors to replace duly elected and certified presidential electors solely because such non-electors were not elected, but would have liked to have been elected, resulting in their preferred candidates losing re-election, plaintiffs' claims to the contrary find no support in the text of the cited constitutional provisions or Electoral Count Act, and are contrary to the whole point of holding elections.

3. Jingdong Yuan:

   The Chinese government position remains that non-interference, diplomatic solutions are preferred, and military intervention would not be able to resolve the problems.

4. Sir Francis Bacon, Essays: Of Building, 1623:

   Houses are built to live in, not to look on; therefore, let use be preferred before uniformity, except where both may be had.

5. Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield:

   Most maxim-mongers have preferred the prettiness to the justness of a thought, and the turn to the truth but I have refused myself to everything that my own experience did not justify and confirm.