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[ adverb ] in a preferential manner

Examples

"he was treated preferentially"

Used in print

(Jacob Robbins et al., "The thyroid-stimulating...)

A study of their activity on thyroglobulin has shown that thyroxine is not preferentially released and that the degradation proceeds stepwise with the formation of macromolecular intermediates ( Alpers , Petermann and Rall , 1956 ) .

(A. N. Nagaraj and L. M. Black, "Localization of...)

The concentration and apparent localization of the WTV antigen in pseudophloem tissue of the tumor may indicate that the virus preferentially multiplies in the phloem and may need to be directly placed in this tissue in_order_to infect plants .

Related terms

discriminatory discriminatory

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Rhymes with

exponentially potentially eventually tangentially sequentially essentially confidentially unintentionally eventually potentially exponentially tangentially sequentially confidentially essentially circumstantially substantially financially provincially coincidentally incidentally developmentally especially accidentally temperamentally experimentally fundamentally specially environmentally mentally generally perennially generally initially temperamentally governmentally developmentally environmentally mentally kennelly commercially racially professionally actually fundamentally beneficially superficially artificially officially governmentally accidentally temperamentally judicially coincidentally experimentally unofficially centrally unsuccessfully successfully unintentionally operationally educationally professionally socially operationally especially specially regretfully testily successfully dreadfully unsuccessfully architecturally temporarily impartially partially crucially federally testily carefully exceptionally severally clumsily financially circumstantially substantially initially professionally provincially respectfully readily wearily merrily warily momentarily voluntarily anencephaly secondarily heavily unintentionally eventually conventionally intentionally conditionally gravitationally educationally unconditionally operationally helpfully nutritionally traditionally wishfully additionally additionally institutionally rationally irrationally internationally proportionally nutritionally nationally conditionally actually exceptionally unconstitutionally functionally unconditionally spiritually constitutionally traditionally purposefully steadily commercially architecturally functionally racially extraordinarily militarily necessarily primarily ordinarily customarily scantily fiscally internationally rationally gainfully blissfully irrationally naturally painfully nationally sicily unnaturally technically clumsily tastefully gratefully gracefully exceptionally beneficially artificially noisily individually nasally actually superficially officially judicially unofficially federally perpetually manfully educationally professionally surgically operationally occasionally emotionally proportionally institutionally unconstitutionally arbitrarily italy handily clinically cynically frantically eerily gracefully personally peripherally forcefully sardonically usually electronically uneasily gully socially semiannually

Phonetic and Homophones

P R EH2 F ER0 EH1 N SH AH0 L IY0
P R EH2 F ER0 EH1 N CH AH0 L IY0

Similar Spelling

preferential proverbially prefrontal_lobe preference_shares

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