Favourite
Favourite adjective - Preferred above all others and treated with partiality.
Odds-on and favourite are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Odds-on" instead an adjective "Favourite".
Nearby Words: favoured, favouritism
Odds-on
Odds-on adjective - Having a better than even chance of success.
Both words in one sentence
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Although we say they were the front-runners, we should say that David was the odds-on favourite, and Ed was seen as something of a dark-horse candidate.
Source: Sibling Rivalry -
It probably has something to do with the 2008 Grand Final, for which Geelong was the odds-on favourite, and which Hawthorn won, and the 1989 Grand Final, which is regarded as one of the all-time classic G Fs, and Hawthorn also won.
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