favored

Example Sentences

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The changes, favored by environmental groups, were never completed.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 21, 2026

If trapped ions are favored, the winners would be IonQ and Quantinuum, the Honeywell International spinout that will come public soon.

From Barron's • May 21, 2026

First, walking upright freed the hands from locomotion, creating new pressures that favored more specialized and asymmetric hand use.

From Science Daily • May 18, 2026

It wasn’t just the ancient Greeks and the American founders who favored classical forms; Roman emperors and the Nazis did too.

From Slate • May 18, 2026

I told him that I'd met with the ABI investigators and that I understood there were some case developments that favored Mr. McMillian.

From "Just Mercy" by Bryan Stevenson