"clear-cut preference" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when there is a distinct preference between two or more options. For example, "It was a clear-cut preference between the two candidates, with 75% of voters choosing the incumbent."
In the third task, designed to force the subjects to choose between two conflicting novelty cues (texture and position), non-lesioned subjects displayed a clear-cut preference for textural novelty while subjects having bilateral vibrissal paralysis preferred positional novelty.
Concerning the recruitment strategy for participants in the human biomonitoring no one clear-cut preference emerged.
Under these conditions, nearly half of animals are expected to shift in preference from LL to SS ("steep" sub-population) while the other half maintain a clear-cut preference for LL ("flat" sub-population, see [ 55]).
However, unlike the clear cut preference for the feature strategy we found in the first experiment, in the current experiment we found that five subjects used a spatial strategy to solve the task.
A preferentially perivenous induction of target genes in wild-type mice is contrasted by a rather unsystematic induction in the Ctnnb1 knockout mice without a clear-cut zonal preference and with stronger- and weaker-responding hepatocytes distributed in a scattered pattern throughout the entire liver lobule (Braeuning et al. 2009).
Furthermore, even when courtship effort plays a role in mate choice, the relationship between courtship intensity and female preference is not always clear-cut [ 36- 38].
To test the hypothesis that care typology-being complex and highly unpredictable versus being clear-cut and highly predictable-guides healthcare payment preferences of physicians, policy makers, healthcare executives, and researchers.
He preferred middlegames with clear-cut plans.
Preferences for [L] did not seem as clear-cut.
Such measurement error might also partly explain why the effect of individual preferences on the occurrence of extra-pair copulations was less clear-cut (see Fig. 2) than one might have expected from the data presented by Houtman [11].
