Would prefer
We use would prefer or ’d prefer, followed by a to-infinitive or a noun, to talk about present and future preferences: …

prefer | American Dictionary

prefer
verb
us/prɪˈfɜr/-rr-
to choose or want one thing rather than another:
[ T ]We have tea and coffee, but perhaps you’d prefer a cold drink.
[ T ]He prefers watching baseball to playing it.
[ + that clause ]She prefers that we meet at the station.
[ + to infinitive ]Would you prefer to leave?

Examples of prefer

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Surely, early generative phonology in the 1970s provided evidence for preferring deletion to insertion rules for the sake of generality.
Researchers, for instance, can help shape results by anticipating preferred outcomes and subtly providing conditions that favor their development.
The cane-cutters preferred the twelve-month cane; the 24-month cane was reported to be harder to cut, had lodged and was infested with weeds.
Individuals are modelled as instrumentally rational to the extent that they choose those actions that are best calculated to achieve preferred outcomes.
In that example, the runner strictly prefers realizing some culmination outcome (winning) in certain ways (by competing fairly) rather than others (by cheating).
Obviously, all else being equal, a higher minimum standard is socially preferred.
Depending on the particular problem and the actual stage of development of a given science, one type may be preferred to another.
Although it would be time-consuming to undertake, an analysis of such cases might throw light upon the circumstances in which he preferred the reiterated note.
Ideally, we would compare households' preferred consumption with their actual consumption for those who have and have not relocated.
Of the seven participants who rejected the target sentence, two said that they rather preferred the noncontracted variant is not.
Double-peaked histograms of velocity fluctuations imply that the velocity has two preferred states.
Therefore, if non-parametric interval mapping is chosen, the midrank approach should be preferred.
On those the majority preferred single consonant spellings for the first, fourth and seventh, and double consonants for the rest.
Rather than simply closing the septal defect, relieving the pulmonary stenosis, and performing an atrial switch, univentricular repair was preferred in these patients.
Standard components are preferred to custom-made ones as they are usually cheaper and readily available.
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