favored
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The relative attractiveness of non-U.S. equities is showing up among the stocks and funds favored by the investment newsletters my performance auditing firm monitors.
From MarketWatch • Apr. 24, 2026
Civil libertarians have favored it, including when Cook led a fight against the FBI, which wanted Apple to build digital backdoors into iPhones.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 21, 2026
And unlike the superconducting loops favored by International Business Machines and Google, which must be chilled to temperatures colder than deep space, photonic interconnects can operate at room temperature.
From Barron's • Apr. 21, 2026
One possibility is that the companies could be split up, an outcome favored by critics.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 15, 2026
Where Chase preferred words on a page, Mattie favored the spoken word.
From "Hattie Big Sky" by Kirby Larson
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