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  • noun A person who prefers (a stated thing)

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Examples

  • Ou alors zété tellement sur les programmeurs que le mode difficile etait impossible a boucler qu'ils ont preferer tout nous faire gagner en mode moyen!

    pinku-tk Diary Entry pinku-tk 2007

  • Et pour ce que l'Eglise Romaine, laissant l'usage et coustume de la primitive Eglise, a introduit nouveaux commandemens et nouvelle forme du service de Dieu: nous estimons estre tres-raisonnable de preferer les commandemens de Dieu, qui est la verite mesme, aux commandemens des hommes: qui de leur nature sont enclins ` a mensonge et vanite.

    The Creeds of the Evangelical Protestant Churches. 1889

  • Dieu: nous estimons estre tres-raisonnable de preferer les commandemens de Dieu, qui est la verite mesme, aux commandemens des hommes: qui de leur nature sont enclins ` a mensonge et vanite.

    The Creeds of the Evangelical Protestant Churches. 1889

  • Our sweet tooth is basically an evolved sugar detector, because sugar is high energy, and it’s just been wired up to the preferer, to put it very crudely, and that’s why we like sugar.

    Dan Dennett: Cute, sexy, sweet, funny 2009

  • Our sweet tooth is basically an evolved sugar detector, because sugar is high energy, and it’s just been wired up to the preferer, to put it very crudely, and that’s why we like sugar.

    Dan Dennett: Cute, sexy, sweet, funny 2009

  • Our sweet tooth is basically an evolved sugar detector, because sugar is high energy, and it’s just been wired up to the preferer, to put it very crudely, and that’s why we like sugar.

    Dan Dennett: Cute, sexy, sweet, funny 2009

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