in favor of

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favorable adj.
likely adj.
for prep.

ADJECTIVE

favorable

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agreeable benign encouraging positive supportive sympathetic

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acclamatory affirmative amicable approbative approbatory assenting benevolent benignant commending complimentary enthusiastic inclined kind kindly laudatory okay praiseful predisposed reassuring recommendatory understanding welcoming well-disposed well-intentioned

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disadvantageous disagreeable hateful

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bad derogatory detrimental harmful hindering hurtful hurting injurious unfavorable unfriendly unhelpful unpromising

ADJECTIVE

likely

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acceptable expected fair feasible inclined possible prone reasonable

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achievable anticipated assuring attainable believeable conceivable conjecturable credible destined disposed favorite given to imaginable in the cards in the habit of inferable liable odds-on on the verge of ostensible plausible practicable predisposed presumable promising rational seeming subject to supposable tending thinkable true up-and-coming verisimilar workable

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impossible unlikely unreasonable

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implausible inapt unforeseeable

PREPOSITION

for

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after as beneficial to concerning conducive to during for the sake of in contemplation of in exchange for in furtherance of in order to in order to get in place of in pursuance of in the direction of in the interest of in the name of notwithstanding on the part of on the side of pro supposing to to counterbalance to go to to the amount of to the extent of toward under the authority of with a view to with regard to with respect

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in favor of

Earlier this month, Norway’s more than $2 trillion sovereign-wealth fund—the world’s largest—proposed cutting its allocation to government bonds, including Treasurys, in favor of mortgage-backed securities and other riskier debt.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 15, 2026

The data are swinging traders’ bets in favor of a rate increase next week because of the report’s implications for the inflation gauge that the Fed tracks—the personal consumption expenditures price index.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 11, 2026

Although an El Niño year doesn’t guarantee such storms will develop, the climate pattern tilts the odds in favor of a rainier-than-normal winter across Southern California.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 9, 2026

“Overwhelmingly, the public is in favor of having backup generators,” Bennett said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 8, 2026

“So you’re in favor of the Democratic Party,” I said.

From "Breaking Through" by Francisco Jiménez

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