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disadvantage

[dis-uhd-van-tij, -vahn-] / ˌdɪs ədˈvæn tɪdʒ, -ˈvɑn- /


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The trio created an Index of Deep Disadvantage, measuring not just income and wealth but other markers including health and education.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 8, 2023

The author of the report, called "Double Disadvantage," said it is one of the first to examine the financial plight of undocumented women as separate from the plight of undocumented men in the United States.

From Salon • Jun. 16, 2023

Disadvantage: Light microscopes can be used only in the presence of light and have lower resolution.

From Textbooks • Jun. 9, 2022

Disadvantage: Important reminder: it is not a good idea to spend un-earned revenue on research and development.

From Inc • Jan. 3, 2012

This is certainly as uncommon, and in its Proportion as laudable in a Citizen, as it is in a General never to have suffered a Disadvantage in Fight.

From The Spectator, Volume 1 Eighteenth-Century Periodical Essays by Addison, Joseph




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