The phrase "a preferred version" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing a specific choice or option that is favored over others in a particular context.
Example: "In our documentation, we recommend using a preferred version of the software to ensure compatibility."
Alternatives: "a favored version" or "an ideal version".
"I don't have a preferred version," says Rickson. "That would be like choosing which of your two children you love more".
Richard Gruneau and David Whitson note in their 1993 book, "Hockey Night in Canada" (Garamond Press), that "hockey has acted as a medium not just for the expression of Canadian identity but also for the reaffirmation of a preferred version of national character: tough and hard, passionate yet determined, individualistic".
Rotamer definitions are listed both as the modal values and in a preferred version that maximizes common atoms between related rotamers.
In all cases, female participants responded to different variations of the same male identity, either by choosing between a high and low trait version of the same face, or by selecting a preferred version of a face from a continuum.
The issue gets more complex when you consider that each interest group has its own preferred version of a carbon tax or cap and trade system.
This initiative reflects the industry's preferred version of a national alcohol policy.
Jeunet has stated that the special edition is not a director's cut as his preferred version is the theatrical cut.
In 1972, Rand gave her approval for an Off-Broadway revival using her preferred version of the script and her original title, Penthouse Legend.
The idea that Ukraine is evenly split between a pro-European west and a pro-Russian east actually fits with Putin's preferred version of events; saying there's any "one map" you need to understand Ukraine's crisis" risks unwittingly spreading the Kremlin's story.
This isn't a conventional edition, though it includes Paterson's preferred version of the text and gives reasons for his choices.
The bands of white men who gathered in defense of the monument to Robert E. Lee, like the men who erected it, nearly a century ago, were not arguing about the past but presenting a specific claim to the present — and, thereby, their preferred version of the future.
