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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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How to use preferred in a sentence?

  1. President Reagan:

    I would have preferred it if he decided to attack me, from what I hear, he's chosen to attack my wife, and I don't look kindly on that at all.

  2. Alexandra Hamlet:

    While we are in a Covid world, we need to be kind and patient with ourselves with how we're using technology, we may not have preferred to be online as much as we are but that may be the reality we have to accept to get through each day.

  3. Affordable Care ActHere:

    There is just no way that Congress would have preferred an outcome that throws 23 million people off their insurance, ends protections for people with preexisting conditions and creates chaos in the health care sector.

  4. Rita Agarwal:

    We’re still scrambling to get them what they need, we just don’t always have the preferred drug available. It just involves a lot more creativity.

  5. Elena Kagan:

    We would live in a very different world from the world we live in today. Essentially, we would be inviting states, all 50 of them, with respect to their un-preferred constitutional rights, to try to nullify the law that this Court has laid down as to the content of those rights, we would be like: you're open for business. There's nothing the Supreme Court can do about it. Guns, same-sex marriage, religious rights, whatever you don't like, go ahead.


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