How to Use prerogative in a Sentence
prerogative
noun
- If you'd rather sell the tickets than use them, that's your prerogative.
- It's a writer's prerogative to decide the fate of her characters.
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The urge to move on is yours; the prerogative not to is theirs.
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Washington Post,
28 June 2021
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In the end, the selections are the prerogative of the chair.
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vanityfair.com,
19 Oct. 2017
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Refusal, like so much else, turns out to be the prerogative of men.
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Claire Dederer,
The Atlantic,
4 May 2021
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Wanting to live on the West Coast is a prerogative and a choice, not an insult.
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Washington Post,
9 Feb. 2022
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Such was the prerogative of a place home to so many of the nation’s leading financiers.
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Sarah Schweitzer,
The Atlantic,
15 Aug. 2019
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Some may not like it, and to be honest, that’s their prerogative.
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Sydney Scott,
Essence,
9 July 2019
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That’s your prerogative as an artist, to change your mind and do something else.
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Gary Graff,
cleveland,
21 Mar. 2022
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Council Chairman Tom Quirk said Kamenetz has the prerogative to set the salaries for his top staff.
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Pamela Wood,
baltimoresun.com,
16 May 2017
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Though poor choices, of course, are the prerogative — if not the main purpose — of a misspent youth.
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Leah Greenblatt,
EW.com,
31 July 2020
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The best thing about bein’ Jason Kelce is the prerogative to have a little fun at football games.
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Hannah Dailey,
Billboard,
26 Jan. 2024
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Steve just stands there lookin’ cute, as is his prerogative.
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Lauren Puckett-Pope,
ELLE,
2 July 2022
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But that didn’t give you the prerogative to try to replace her ticket with a worse one, whatever the cost was to you.
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Kwame Anthony Appiah,
New York Times,
5 July 2023
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His life, his prerogative to live it within the bounds of small-er-ish paychecks.
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Washington Post,
19 Apr. 2021
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That is his prerogative as a citizen of the United States.
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David Streitfeld,
New York Times,
1 June 2018
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He’s also been clear that if members of the public don’t want to forgive him, that is their prerogative.
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Jill Filipovic,
CNN,
29 Nov. 2022
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Muschamp, exercising his coaching prerogative in a spring game, whistled the play dead as the ball hit the ground.
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George Schroeder,
USA TODAY,
5 Apr. 2018
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There’s someone at the top who only thinks about money and that’s their prerogative.
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Michaela Zee,
Variety,
22 Nov. 2023
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That is her prerogative; judges have a wide range of discretion.
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Areva Martin,
Time,
26 Jan. 2018
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This young bride is exercising her prerogative to change her mind at the very last minute.
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New York Times,
13 Nov. 2020
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Image Image If some artists choose to share details of their lives through their art, that is their prerogative.
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Jonathan Griffin,
New York Times,
7 May 2024
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But that is their prerogative and right, and their money, so who is to question them about that really?
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Jay Adkisson,
Forbes,
10 Feb. 2024
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Two such goods are child welfare and parental prerogatives.
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David McGarry,
National Review,
15 Aug. 2023
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That's their prerogative and there's a whole lot of different reasons why guys do that.
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Ben Steele,
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel,
19 Apr. 2022
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Telling your daughter the truth was your prerogative and in the best interests of your family.
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Washington Post,
20 Apr. 2022
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The idea is ridiculous, un-American, an affront to the prerogatives of a free people.
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Heather Wilhelm,
National Review,
10 Aug. 2023
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As the best player in a league with overflowing revenues, that is his prerogative.
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Zack Meisel,
cleveland.com,
4 July 2017
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Even the crown continued to enjoy a few legacy prerogatives, including those over the hierarchies of the church and the universities.
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Andrew Cockburn,
Harper's Magazine,
20 Aug. 2024
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Given the prerogatives of intimacy, Hollinghurst could fearlessly bring out what was monstrous or absurd about them.
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Giles Harvey,
The New Yorker,
23 Sep. 2024
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