in favor

idiom

: approved of, supported, or popular
Her theories are no longer in favor.

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Plenty of teams voted in favor of banning the play, but there weren't enough to pass. Evan Massey, MSNBC Newsweek, 23 June 2025 On issue after issue, Trump’s team seemed determined to break radically with the past, ushering in a very new (yet simultaneously very old) approach to American policy—one that rejected the postwar liberal international order in favor of a return to nineteenth-century great-power predation. Gideon Rose, Foreign Affairs, 23 June 2025 Those odds have shifted in favor of Lima, who is now -190, while Talbott is a +165 betting underdog. Trent Reinsmith, Forbes.com, 22 June 2025 Friends of the Park published a scathing report in 2018 that found resources — from park space to programs — continued to be unequally distributed across the city, failing Black and Latino neighborhoods in favor of whiter, richer ones. Adriana Pérez, Chicago Tribune, 22 June 2025 See All Example Sentences for in favor

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“In favor.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/in%20favor. Accessed 3 Jul. 2025.

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