Preference and Right

Preference

Preference noun - A person or thing that is preferred over others.

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Right and preference are semantically related In some cases you can use "Right" instead a noun "Preference".

Right noun - Something to which one has a just claim.

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Preference and right are semantically related in privilege topic. Sometimes you can use "Preference" instead a noun "Right".

Nearby Words: righteous, rightful, righted, rightly, righting

clear	clear preference	clear right
special	special preference	special right
better	better preference	better right
normal	normal preference	normal right
Other adjectives: short, open, simple, real, big, little, traditional, general, next.

It also affects hand preference; if you are in a country that drives on the left, in a right-hand-drive car, requiring left hands to shift gears and you're a right-handed?

Source: Damn You, Muscle Memory
Due to the loss of her children (presumably right in front of her eyes and in some gruesome way), she's now a cannibal, and has a preference for small children.

Source: Ax Crazy / Video Games
Morgan also advocates such training to his king Brion Haldane, when the king had an expressed preference for having all his pages and squires train to be right-handed.

Source: Literature / Deryni

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