favored

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We’ll find out soon enough: On paper, the U.S. team should be able to beat its first two opponents, Paraguay and Australia, and slide into the knockout rounds as a favored seed.

From Salon • Jun. 11, 2026

Playing at home, at 7,300 feet above sea level and before 80,000 or so rabid supporters, El Tri will be heavily favored to win.

From Salon • Jun. 11, 2026

Over the past few years, individual investors have coalesced into a market-moving force, upending hedge-fund bets, salvaging struggling companies and sending favored stocks straight to the moon.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 10, 2026

But the US beat heavily favored Colombia to reach the last 16, and the seeds for an American soccer boom were sown.

From Barron's • Jun. 9, 2026

I don’t recall a moment in my life when I was more acutely aware of how providence has favored the land to which I was born.

From "A Walk in the Woods" by Bill Bryson