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favored

/fey-verd/US // ˈfeɪ vərd //

受宠的,受惠的,受惠,受宠

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : regarded or treated with preference or partiality: Her beauty made her the favored child.
    • : enjoying special advantages; privileged: to be born into the favored classes.
    • : of specified appearance: ill-favored.

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Examples

  • Free speech scholars and advocacy groups say the Texas state government unconstitutionally dictates political speech on the world’s largest platforms by forcing platforms to carry favored views.

  • Being safe and favored helps but it doesn’t necessarily make a company stand out.

  • There, many minority parents supported Tom Torklarson, who favored the education reform agenda.

  • In the absence of ceremonial formalities, Francis favored a business-like manner.

  • The former believed in the role of the state as a provider, while the latter favored an iron fist approach to governance.

  • The Keystone project is not an American one, but a global one, financed and favored by major multinational oil interests.

  • Even as Hispanics favored Democrats this week, some Republicans wooed them ardently and made surprising inroads.

  • The morning to sleep, the afternoon to business and the evening to enjoyment, seems the usual routine with the favored classes.

  • The day was hot and the roads dusty, and Lawrence favored the horses all possible, but they made good progress.

  • The human race, if favored by environment, can easily double itself every twenty-five years.

  • The tobacconist whom he thus favored was his under-treasurer, Hardham, whom no writer about snuff should omit to notice.

  • In truth, the art of tobacco using is nowhere more ignored, nowhere more contemptuously neglected than in these 'favored isles.'