disfavor
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The program singles out a list of industrial facilities for disfavor, setting a low threshold for the permitting requirements to kick in.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 13, 2026
“Hamilton was so in disfavor when he died that he was just in the wilderness,” says Vaill.
From Slate • Oct. 21, 2025
That shaving scene referenced earlier dramatizes why this and other supposedly neutral policies painfully disfavor some people without diving into a medical manual.
From Salon • Oct. 10, 2025
“Why would we read the Constitution to disfavor real property, though?” he asked.
From New York Times • Apr. 26, 2023
Since Toynbee’s attempt, worldwide syntheses of historical causation have fallen into disfavor among most historians, as posing an apparently intractable problem.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
Vocabulary lists containing disfavor
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