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disfavor

[dis-fey-ver] / dɪsˈfeɪ vər /


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The program singles out a list of industrial facilities for disfavor, setting a low threshold for the permitting requirements to kick in.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 13, 2026

It was the stick he waved around the world to achieve his foreign policy aims, to show favor and disfavor, to offer or withhold exemptions to courtiers.

From Slate ● Feb. 21, 2026

That there is nothing new to see here is not in the series’ disfavor.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 8, 2025

But many individual investors also have the ability to press the eject button on stocks that they disfavor, all on their own.

From New York Times ● May 11, 2024

Since Toynbee’s attempt, worldwide syntheses of historical causation have fallen into disfavor among most historians, as posing an apparently intractable problem.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond




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