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• v  promote over another
• v  consider as the favorite
  The local team was favored
• v  treat gently or carefully
• v  bestow a privilege upon
• s  preferred above all others and treated with partiality
  the favored child

• The debates generally broke down along familiar lines: State, CIA, and NSC favored a more inclusive and transparent approach, in which Iraqis representing the many tribes .
• McCain ran a television ad claiming that Obama favored "comprehensive" sex education for kindergartners.
• How did Japan become the favored default setting for so many cyberpunk writers?.

• prefer
• favor
• favour
• privilege
• favorite
• favourite
• best-loved
• pet
• preferred
• preferent

News & Articles

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• Evenly matched Bruins, Blackhawks collide in Stanley Cup Finals
  Based on the regular season, the Chicago Blackhawks are favored to oust the surging Boston Bruins and win their second Stanley Cup in the last four years.
  June 12, 2013 - The Philadelphia Inquirer
• Divided voters choose new pool
  With low voter turnout in a special election Tuesday, Pocahontas voters favored two 0.5 percent sales tax issues that will fund construction and maintenance of a $7.5 million indoor swimming pool and aquatic center.
  June 12, 2013 - Arkansas Democrat-Gazette
• Euro to Face OMT Hearing- Short Scalps Favored Below 1.3340
  Euro to Face OMT Hearing- Short Scalps Favored Below 1.3340
  June 10, 2013 - DailyFX via Yahoo! Finance

Quotes

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• Phil Mickelson in Chicago Tribune
  I don't think it really matters if you're favored or not or what people expect,Mickelson said. "I think how you're perceived heading into the tournament really doesn't matter."
• Barack Obama in Orlando Sentinel
  My writing wasn't on that particular questionnaire ...... as I said, I have never favored an all-out ban on handguns,Obama said, even though his handwritten notes did appear on its front page.
• Roy Blunt in Forbes
  I think that discussion is the discussion we need to have. ...... We have for months now favored that kind of inclusion in a bill that may be very important at resolving this impasse that we're in,Blunt said.