favored

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Over the past few years, individual investors have coalesced into a market-moving force, upending hedge-fund bets, salvaging struggling companies and sending favored stocks straight to the moon.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 10, 2026

Not winning the Tony for his indefatigable performance must sting, but John Lithgow was favored to win for his brave turn as the baleful Roald Dahl of Mark Rosenblatt’s “Giant.”

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 8, 2026

The program “is solving an unmet need,” a team of Jefferies analysts wrote in a Thursday note reaffirming the stock as one of its favored stock picks.

From Barron's • Jun. 4, 2026

The California electorate has typically favored experience over youth, and favored bland and boring over razzle and dazzle.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 3, 2026

Because of the wicked way they had treated Cassandra, Athena had been angry at all the Greeks indiscriminately, but before that, during the Trojan War, she had especially favored Odysseus.

From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton