in favor
Example Sentences
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Other campus leaders, including then-UC Berkeley chancellor, spoke in favor of dropping testing requirements.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 11, 2026
It can provide electricity for only a few hours a day, and people avoid its flattened currency in favor of dollars.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 9, 2026
A bet that it reopens by July 31 shifted to mostly “no” by late May; current odds are tilted in favor of a reopening by December.
From MarketWatch • Jun. 9, 2026
The odds are overwhelmingly in favor of policymakers keeping the benchmark interest rate at the target range of 3.50% to 3.75% at the conclusion of the June 16-17 policy meeting.
From Barron's • Jun. 8, 2026
Her mother had been in favor of Oberlin, had urged her to apply in the first place, but when Elena visited the campus, she’d felt immediately out of place.
From "Little Fires Everywhere" by Celeste Ng
