favoring

verb

Definition of favoringnext
present participle of favor
1
as in appeasing
to do a service or favor for although she was at the party as a guest, the singer favored us with a song

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Relevance

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2
as in accepting
to have a favorable opinion of if this measure will reduce our property taxes, then I favor it

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3
as in preferring
to show partiality toward older moviegoers tend to favor films that have certain extras—like a plot and developed characters

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4
as in endowing
to furnish freely or naturally with some power, quality, or attribute favored with good looks

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Recent Examples of favoring With department stores in turmoil, Kuryshchuk advised emerging designers to reconsider wholesale, favoring partnerships with larger companies. — Rhonda Richford, Footwear News, 17 Oct. 2026 More than 130 million voters were deleted during the revision but the Election Commission has denied favoring any party and said wrongly deleted voters can re-enrol. — Reuters, NBC news, 16 Oct. 2026 Southeast Michigan is heading into winter with strong odds favoring above-normal temperatures and below-normal precipitation, as shown in the latest official 90-day winter outlook from the National Weather Service. — Ahmad Bajjey, CBS News, 16 Oct. 2026 Just last week, the Justice Department asked the justices to stop a ruling favoring Democrats in a fight over TV advertising rates ahead of the midterms. — Sophie Brams, The Hill, 14 Oct. 2026 While the country’s Bollywood machine continues apace, favoring melodramatic stories, this JioHotstar program has challenged its audience – and wider society, by extension – to really think about the nature of life in the country. — Jesse Whittock, Deadline, 13 Oct. 2026 Entering a closed market Mainland China has kept a tight grip on its financial sector, favoring domestic players and restricting cross-border capital flows. — Evelyn Cheng, CNBC, 13 Oct. 2026 Wolff said the team would continue with its strategy of favoring whichever driver is quicker at the time, rather than allowing Antonelli and Russell to battle on track and potentially help another team. — ABC News, 9 Oct. 2026 The Cook Political Report, the nonpartisan election prognosticator, moved 18 more House seats toward favoring Democrats on Friday. — Mariana Alfaro, Washington Post, 9 Oct. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for favoring
  1. appeasing
  2. accepting
  3. preferring
  4. endowing
  5. delighting
  6. liking
  7. gifting
  8. obliging
Verb
  • The bill now also includes a compromise on stablecoin yield aimed at appeasing banking interests by directing the Treasury secretary to restrict rewards if deposit flight from community banks occurs on a substantial scale.
    — Garrett Downs, CNBC, 14 Sep. 2026
  • In 1938, British, French, German and Italian leaders concluded the Munich Agreement, which was aimed at appeasing Adolf Hitler by allowing Nazi annexation of Czechoslovakia’s Sudetenland.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 14 Sep. 2026
Definition of appeasing
Verb
  • After arriving at the hospital and spending nearly an hour with hospital staff filling out paperwork, I was handed another form accepting financial responsibility.
    — Scott Levenson, New York Daily News, 18 Oct. 2026
  • So the witches must find the son to stop him from accepting the role.
    — Lexi Carson, HollywoodReporter, 17 Oct. 2026
Definition of accepting
Verb
  • Acura is also calling time on its GTP program in IMSA, preferring to focus its motorsports efforts on IndyCar.
    — Jonathan M. Gitlin, ArsTechnica, 14 Oct. 2026
  • Gen Xers are also least likely to eat out or go shopping for groceries online, preferring instead to cook for themselves.
    — Jintao Zhang, The Conversation, 13 Oct. 2026
Definition of preferring
Verb
  • An essential state role, parallel to provisioning basic services like education and healthcare, is endowing a wide open aesthetic field of form and meaning and collective sensibility.
    — Anna Kornbluh, ARTnews.com, 7 Oct. 2026
  • Gorgoni shot his images in the snow, endowing Shift with a stark graphic identity devoid of human occupancy.
    — Jeffrey Weiss, Artforum, 1 Oct. 2026
Definition of endowing
Verb
  • Tse Yang was the finest Chinese restaurant to open in Madrid, and its crispy Peking Duck has been delighting locals for years.
    — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 7 Oct. 2026
  • Here, misfits are welcome, and bric-a-brac is part of the appeal; the wonderfully bizarre name and devil-may-care attitude have been confusing (and delighting) first-timers for more than 70 years.
    — Skye Sherman, Southern Living, 13 Sep. 2026
Definition of delighting
Verb
  • Simply liking someone, feeling close to them or spending hours together isn’t enough to create an attachment relationship.
    — Pascal Vrticka, Scientific American, 4 Oct. 2026
  • Their incoming new owner inspired huge enthusiasm among fans by ‘liking’ the club’s Instagram post celebrating the victory.
    — Dermot Corrigan, New York Times, 4 Oct. 2026
Definition of liking
Verb
  • Spring & Mulberry Embellished Painterly Set Spring & Mulberry chocolate is notoriously good for gifting—the packaging is gorgeous, and the brand uses direct-trade, single-origin cacao and organic dates for sweetness.
    — Kate Kassin, Bon Appetit Magazine, 16 Oct. 2026
  • At its core, gifting expresses human relationships, and receiving an item specifically chosen from a personal wish list delivers a far better experience than a surprise generated by an algorithm.
    — Arthur Zaczkiewicz, Footwear News, 15 Oct. 2026
Definition of gifting
Verb
  • Recipe development can be a self-effacing task, obliging the writer to anticipate the appetites and routines of her imagined reader.
    — Hannah Goldfield, New Yorker, 7 Sep. 2026
  • First is to prevent their further migration by enforcing an international treaty obliging national authorities to treat ballast waters inside incoming ships that may carry such species.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 30 July 2026
Definition of obliging

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“Favoring.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/favoring. Accessed 20 Oct. 2026.

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