What is "preferably"

Usage examples of "preferably".

She expects the maestro to scold the accompanist or, preferably, fire her.

Howeverjt was not as Pitt had intended: He would rather have been casual, and preferably have seen Lovell and then Ambrosine separately.

It was a tradition that when astronauts were cooped in their tiny quarters, hundreds of miles from anything and thousands of miles into an orbit, only one person on ground must be allowed to communicate with them lest there be confusion in commands or a babel of voices, and that one person must be a fellow astronaut, preferably one who had already flown.

She called the traffic tower to ask for another landing slot, preferably nearer the brawn barracks.

He rarely saw conflicts in black and white, tried to avoid demonizing adversaries, and always looked for negotiated solutions first, preferably in a multilateral context.

Perihelion to have a human face, preferably young, smart but not intimidating, and he had been pushing Jase in front of cameras since the days when Perihelion was an aerospace lobby group.

She further claims that it should now be possible to discover potential plaguers at birth, and states that all high-risk cases in children must be kept separate from cities and areas of high technology, preferably growing up on small farms or in wilder country regions more in touch with the natural order of things.

His superfine jacket, meant to be eased on and off, preferably by a valet, rent at the shoulder seams as he tore it off.

Current reactor concepts cleverly use the neutron flux from the fusion reactor itself to make more tritium, solving some of the neutron contamination problem at the same time, but it would be nice if we could tap into fusion power without having to deal with radioactive waste at all, and preferably without using exotic and expensive isotopes either.

Beetchermarlf was hoping to find unfrozen space either near the bottom or, preferably, near the top of the walls around them.

The Dracophils held one or two every day in some of the thirty-six districts of Alca, and preferably in the poorer quarters.

Lawyers arranged for Sid to work off the beef with community service, namely by using his great talents and influence to make an antidrug movie, preferably full-length and for theatrical release.

Dwellers had better construct an arteria web which they controlled - and which preferably nobody else knew about - if they wanted to voyage from gas-giant to gas-giant reliably and without fuss.

The beans are put preferably into baskets or, failing these, on to broad banana leaves, which are used as trays.

I expect a startling new lifeform to emerge imminently, preferably a carnivorous phage that preys on biotechnical garments and their wearers.