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fancied

[fan-seed] / ˈfæn sid /


ADJECTIVE
imagined
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O'Neill has a perfect domestic record in his five games in interim charge and will be fancied to make it six out of six when struggling Dundee come calling in midweek.

From BBC

"They were perhaps hunting like leopards -- dropping out of trees on any unsuspecting thing they fancied for dinner."

From Science Daily

Co-author Prof Michael Archer said "drop crocs" were a "bizarre idea" but some were "perhaps hunting like leopards - dropping out of trees on any unsuspecting thing they fancied for dinner".

From BBC

American Ilia Malinin, two-time reigning world champion and defending Skate Canada champion, is fancied in the men's event after a victory in France.

From Barron's

"We all wanted to look like Audrey Hepburn," she later told her biographer, "but I wasn't attractive and nobody fancied me."

From BBC