favored
Example Sentences
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Presley favored other candidates for the role, a prominent assignment covering almost all of Nestlé’s marketing in the U.S.,
“Certainly he’s doing a great job, and he would be probably favored at this point.”
From Los Angeles Times
Using a South Dakota trust to avoid taxes on carried-interest income has become a favored strategy for a small but growing cadre of private-equity professionals.
Under this view, mutations are usually neither helpful nor harmful, allowing them to spread quietly without being strongly favored or rejected by natural selection.
From Science Daily
When favored stocks decline, sell put options just below the stock price and that expire in a month or so to buy stocks when they are weak.
From Barron's
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