favored

Example Sentences

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These guys have won 13 playoff games in a row, and are currently drinking the milkshake of the media darling, widely favored Spurs, but they’re not screaming about being Kings of the World’s Greatest Arena.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 8, 2026

Transferrin receptors have become the industry’s favored blood-brain portals, and the Swiss drug company calls its technology the BrainShuttle.

From Barron's • Jun. 3, 2026

The result then was an Alabama state voting map that favored five Republicans and two Democrats for the House of Representatives.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 3, 2026

Years later, a mix of days in the office and at home has become a common arrangement in the white-collar workplace — and a favored one, too.

From MarketWatch • Jun. 2, 2026

I don’t recall a moment in my life when I was more acutely aware of how providence has favored the land to which I was born.

From "A Walk in the Woods" by Bill Bryson