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If you can't manage above the title, the next best thing is to be by yourself right at the bottom, preferably with a box drawn round your name to suggest that you're really an equally big cheese as those on top and that you're doing this project as a special favour.
Ana Marie Cox has a tip for Obama: Needs to drink a Red Bull, preferably without mentioning that it was, in fact, a Red Bull on camera.
Every Guinness World Records should have a virtual cousin, preferably much bigger than the real thing, in which the man who ran out of puff blowing his Malteser jostles for space with the chef whose chocolate igloo was not quite large enough: the Guinness Book of Abject Failure.
What's needed is a steadying hand – preferably one that has been through BBC firestorms before and understands the dynamics and politics of these crises.
The most important advice is probably that using a laptop or tablet on your lap isn't good for anyone, and tablets should also be used on tables, preferably with keyboards if typing a lot.
He had to have policies that would not have happened without his party, preferably something more far reaching than Ed Davey's over-complicated plastic bag tax.
A neat dresser, fastidious diner and devotee of wine and champagne, Arthur bought a property near Grasse, in Provence, and visited it frequently, preferably when he could watch English football on the satellite dish with a link provided, he claimed, by "a man in a Leicester attic".
The general feeling is that it is better to have some independence than none at all – and preferably , total independence with transparent, non-political governance structures.
The flavour is conveyed well enough by this passage: "It makes good business sense to expose the crimes of media competitors (as at Nuremburg, preferably crimes unique to the enemy)." But it won't create a more honest press, one more capable of standing up to "official propaganda", Media Lens's editors told the NLP interviewer.
You needed a logo, preferably a gif to keep the page-loading time low.
Take the ramekins out of the water, set aside to cool slightly, then refrigerate for at least three hours, preferably overnight.
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The adverb "preferably" functions as a modifier, indicating a favored option or manner . It enhances a statement by suggesting a desired condition without making it a strict requirement. Ludwig AI confirms its use across diverse contexts.
Expression frequency: Very common
