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preferred

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verb

past tense of prefer

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Recent Examples of preferred
Adjective
But the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) found that even when accounting for growth impacts, the bill would add $3.3 trillion to the debt over the next 10 years — more than the CBO projected without considering the preferred GOP scoring. Sylvan Lane, The Hill, 22 June 2025 But there doesn’t figure to be a path to a starting job at left guard, unless the coaching staff moves Runyan from his preferred side. Dan Duggan, New York Times, 19 June 2025 And don’t forget the $82,000 down needed to qualify for a preferred mortgage rate. Jonathan Lansner, Oc Register, 18 June 2025 At the end of the last season, after getting the New York elite to bend the knee and support her preferred opera company, Bertha set her sights on fixing up her daughter with an unpalatable British duke for the sake of his title. Jackson McHenry, Vulture, 17 June 2025 See All Example Sentences for preferred
Recent Examples of Synonyms for preferred
Adjective
  • Lauren James, England’s most explosive attacking player, was a doubt to be among the selected 23 because of a hamstring injury.
    Jacob Whitehead, New York Times, 6 June 2025
  • The selected artist will receive $1,700-$2,125 a month for the 17- to 18-week program, plus a stipend for art supplies.
    Anne Gelhaus, Mercury News, 18 May 2025
Adjective
  • New in select theaters on streaming on premium video on demand, Off the Grid stars Duhamel as Guy, a brilliant scientist hiding out in the wild from a megalomaniac employer who wants to weaponize his mini cold fusion reactor for nefarious purposes.
    Tim Lammers, Forbes.com, 30 June 2025
  • At present, only those explicitly invited, many of whom are a select group of superfans with large followings in the Tesla community, may hail one of his robotaxis.
    Christiaan Hetzner, Fortune, 30 June 2025
Adjective
  • But one of my favorite movies ever is ‘Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid,’ so replaying this scene was fantastic.
    Hunter Ingram, Variety, 20 June 2025
  • Whichever candidate wins will likely become the favorite in the November general election, given that New York City is a Democratic stronghold.
    Kate Plummer, MSNBC Newsweek, 20 June 2025
Verb
  • But that was not the case at Leicester last season, when Kiernan Dewsbury-Hall enjoyed a career-best campaign while wingers Abdul Fatawu and Stephy Mavididi registered 19 and 18 goal involvements respectively in the Championship.
    Liam Twomey, The Athletic, 24 Mar. 2025
  • Rowdy expectations Illinois enjoyed a home-like atmosphere in Friday’s first-round win, thanks to the many Illini fans who traveled from Champaign and the Chicago area.
    Colleen Kane, Chicago Tribune, 23 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • If sentences can be broken, literally and metaphorically, by the imprisoned themselves then the state’s jurisdiction, a favored term of legal power play, has been breached.
    Amir Hussain June 6, Literary Hub, 6 June 2025
  • In 2024, crypto groups blanketed the airwaves with advertisements that had nothing to do with their industry, instead supporting favored candidates on the issue sets that defined the election, largely the economy and the border.
    David Sivak, The Washington Examiner, 9 June 2025
Adjective
  • John Stewart and Guy Gardner are considered to be the most famous ones after Jordan in Sector 2814, the chunk of space where Earth is located. Lanterns get their abilities from their iconic power rings that allow chosen individuals to channel their willpower into energy constructs.
    Fran Ruiz, Space.com, 13 May 2025
  • Pope Francis’s chosen burial church could implement some closures in the days leading up to, during, and after the burial.
    Erica Firpo, AFAR Media, 22 Apr. 2025

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“Preferred.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/preferred. Accessed 3 Jul. 2025.

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