favor
Example Sentences
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As a result, Wall Street has been favoring companies like Exxon Mobil and Chevron that can grow more overseas, in places like South America and the Middle East.
From Barron's
Warsh could also favor less accommodative policy if inflation is seen as getting entrenched, he said.
That news also seems to have reversed the powerful rise of gold and silver —which, like cryptocurrencies, are favored by some traders as alternatives to the U.S. dollar.
From Barron's
He added, “How can it not be equated with currying favor or an outright bribe? How can that not be the case?”
From Salon
She was competing in the final race before the Games in her signature downhill event and limped off favoring her left knee—not the one she’d had rebuilt.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
