preferable

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It's fine -- preferable, perhaps -- to have different displays and areas for all the different flavours of the comics artform.

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  1. adjective More desirable or worthy than another; preferred: Coffee is preferable to tea, I think.

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  • Liquidity preference is a strategic consideration: the ability to see as a possible future game a situation where liquidity would be preferable, and rolling back to the present to save liquidity rather than spend it, even though the price / utility function based on the general level of prices might well be in favor of spending now. —  The Agonist - thoughtful, global, timely
  • One bigger than my head is preferable, as it will last me all day. —  justJENN rants & raves
  • It's fine -- preferable, perhaps -- to have different displays and areas for all the different flavours of the comics artform. —  The ADD Blog at Comic Book Galaxy
  • Even ISO 80 has more noise than would be preferable, and by ISO 200, the issue is in full swing. —  DigitalCameraReview.com Digital Camera News and Reviews
  • Eventually, they came together and established what Prince Turki described as a preferable institutional dialogue, rather than being subject to the "whim and will" of two heads of state. —  Israel Palestine Blogs
 

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  1. = French préférable (cf. Spanish preferible = Portuguese preferivel = Italian preferibile); as prefer + -able.
 

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/ˈprɛfərəbl/
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