Participants cheered as their favored candidates' names were announced.
Houston Chronicle (2010)
Starvation is one of nature's favored equalizers.
Houston Chronicle (2004)
He came in heavily favored and extremely fit.
Globe and Mail (2003)
All related terms of 'favored'
favor
something done or granted out of goodwill , rather than from justice or for remuneration ; a kind act
ill-favored
of unpleasant or evil appearance ; ugly
well-favored
pleasing in appearance ; good-looking , handsome , comely , etc.
most favored nation
a nation to which privileges of trade are extended under a government policy of giving the same privileges to all nations that are given to any one of them, sometimes depending on whether certain conditions, as of reciprocity , are met