1
: having an appearance or features of a particular kind
hard-favored
2
: endowed with special advantages or gifts
3
: providing preferential treatment
favored rates of credit
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She enjoys a favored position in the company.
The team is heavily favored to win the championship.
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Isabela Raygoza, Billboard, 10 Jan. 2025
In the comedy’s second season, Smart’s Deborah Vance becomes a highly favored and in-demand comic, thanks to her writer Ava Daniels, played by Hannah Einbinder.
—Kalia Richardson, Rolling Stone, 5 Jan. 2025
At the same time, Republicans remain more favored than Democrats to handle the economy, national security, crime and immigration.
—Eric Lagatta, USA TODAY, 29 Oct. 2024
Late twentieth-century talk of democracy conflated the correct moral claim that the people should rule with the incorrect factual claim that democracy is the natural state of affairs or the inevitable condition of a favored nation.
—Timothy Snyder, Foreign Affairs, 6 Sep. 2022
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Isabela Raygoza, Billboard, 10 Jan. 2025
In the comedy’s second season, Smart’s Deborah Vance becomes a highly favored and in-demand comic, thanks to her writer Ava Daniels, played by Hannah Einbinder.
—Kalia Richardson, Rolling Stone, 5 Jan. 2025
At the same time, Republicans remain more favored than Democrats to handle the economy, national security, crime and immigration.
—Eric Lagatta, USA TODAY, 29 Oct. 2024
Late twentieth-century talk of democracy conflated the correct moral claim that the people should rule with the incorrect factual claim that democracy is the natural state of affairs or the inevitable condition of a favored nation.
—Timothy Snyder, Foreign Affairs, 6 Sep. 2022
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“Favored.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/favored. Accessed 21 Jan. 2025.
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