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Definition of favored
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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Examples of favored in a Sentence
She enjoys a favored position in the company.
The team is heavily favored to win the championship.
Recent Examples of favored from the Web
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Secret discussions by small groups remain a favored method to begin work on controversial issues.
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Smaller streets are white, which allows students to mark up the maps in their A-Z street atlas with their own favored shortcuts (see above).
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Sberbank and VEB, Gorkov's two banks, have been critical to the Russian economy, but have also engaged in high-profile bailouts of Russian companies, including those owned by favored oligarchs.
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A favored execution method of the local Nazi constabulary is decapitation using a dull blade.
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Meanwhile, lagers—by far the favored type of beer in the world—are mainly turned out by megabrewers like AB InBev and Heineken.
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The First Lady, who, for her husband’s final address, returned to her favored designer Jason Wu in a navy-blue dress, has the reputation of helping bring unknown designers to fame.
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Favored devices include depictions of mirrors, their reflections, or paintings within paintings.
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What the Kochs and their allies have created, in her view, is a private political bank capable of bestowing unlimited amounts of money on favored candidates, and doing it with virtually no disclosure of its source.
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First Known Use of favored
15th century
FAVORED Defined for English Language Learners
favored
playDefinition of favored for English Language Learners
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: given special advantages over others : preferred over others
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: considered most likely to win
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