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would rather
Idioms and Phrases
Prefer to, as in We would rather eat dinner before the movie . [Mid-1500s]Example Sentences
“We’re noticing that nowadays, people would rather live in an outdated home with a 3% rate than take on a 7% rate for a move-in ready home,†he said.
She has said she would rather die than be poor, and her oldest son has said his entire life is tied to his dad’s business.
I would rather be in the fifth tier with our destiny in our hands, not spending someone else's money.
Her flighty, academic husband, a man who “would rather risk everything, including the livelihood of everyone he cares about, than be told what he shouldn’t do,†fails to arrive on time for departure and is left to meet an untimely fate.
We were planning on moving, and so I would rather run the district I wanted to live in, that we were planning on living in with or without a congressional run, rather than stay in the same apartment.
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