The phrase "absolutely prefer" is not standard in written English and may sound awkward to some readers.
It can be used when you want to emphasize a strong preference for something over another option, but it is more common to use "prefer" without "absolutely."
Example: "I absolutely prefer tea over coffee when it comes to my morning routine."
Alternatives: "strongly prefer" or "definitely prefer".
But given a choice, dealers "absolutely" prefer that a consumer arrange financing through the showroom, Mr. Palumbo said.
"Mark would absolutely prefer not have an I.P.O. until he absolutely has to," said David Kirkpatrick, the author of "The Facebook Effect".
I absolutely prefer the Android notification system.
Most of these communities would absolutely prefer for the private sector to build the necessary networks and offer real competition, but the economics of telecom makes that as likely as donuts becoming part of a healthy breakfast.
In that reduction, YDL124W absolutely prefers NADPH as a cofactor to NADH.
Previously, TMZ reported that the former Olympian would not be returning for another season, with sources claiming that he now "reluctantly" takes part in the show when it's "absolutely necessary," preferring to shoot scenes in Malibu where he's lived since separating from Kris last year.
The shotgun upgrade absolutely sucks: I prefer the machine gun to the shotgun.
"We absolutely would not prefer clearing the venue, but if one day the venue has to be cleared, I believe the police will use their professional judgment and training using minimum amount of force," he said.
The actors said, "No, absolutely not, we much prefer to go home".
But if you prefer having absolutely no idea what you're going to be turning up to, I'd say just go along anyway because it's highly unlikely that you'll be disappointed.
Thus, unless the editors and reviewer feel that repeating this experiment in order to take pictures of the same embryos in the same image is absolutely essential, we would prefer to not have to do so.
