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
That harm is firmly anchored in a branch of privacy law that has long been recognized, but has fallen into disfavor in recent years.
From Slate • Jan. 15, 2026
But many individual investors also have the ability to press the eject button on stocks that they disfavor, all on their own.
From New York Times • May 11, 2024
That requires service members of all ranks to be apolitical, deferential, obedient, compliant, and silent, whatever the circumstances and without expectation of compensatory favor or disfavor.
From Salon • Dec. 24, 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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