advantage
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Jones soon stumbled upon another scam, which takes advantage of users’ trust in verified profiles.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 22, 2026
Earning a strong salary from one country while temporarily living somewhere with dramatically lower expenses can create a powerful financial advantage without requiring the deprivation normally associated with aggressive saving.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 22, 2026
Warm-bloodedness may have given T. rex another important advantage: access to colder environments.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 20, 2026
In a recent Q&A session, the head of Instagram, Adam Mosseri, said if people posted content "taking advantage of people and harassing them... then we're going to take the content down".
From BBC ● Sep. 12, 2026
One advantage of the former was that while he was listening he could also be glancing at a board.
From "Endgame" by Frank Brady
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China offers competitive advantages in drug development: Its trial sites recruit patients faster, helped by a unified state health system, high patient density near major hospitals and digital recruitment tools, experts say.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 21, 2026
If objectivity is the initiative, then both viewpoints must have their advantages and follies fully rendered.
From Salon ● Sep. 19, 2026
A website mocked up by commercial real estate brokerage RDE Advisors celebrates its many advantages.
From Slate ● Sep. 18, 2026
The tax code provides some advantages to homeowners, and a mortgage allows buyers to own a large asset with a relatively small initial investment.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 16, 2026
His new astronomy had certain evident advantages over the established astronomy of Ptolemy.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
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“Our operations team demonstrated why they are the best in the business, putting us in an advantaged position to bring forward material value on our differentiated asset base.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 3, 2026
Daniel Kebede, general secretary of the National Education Union, said current tests and assessments in schools "set many students up to fail, overwhelmingly those from less advantaged backgrounds".
From BBC ● Jul. 14, 2026
“If that isn’t a signal to grow production in an advantaged area like the Permian Basin, then I don’t know what is,” said CEO Kaes Van’t Hof on Diamondback’s earnings call early Tuesday.
From Barron's ● May 5, 2026
Counterintuitively, Ross said, smaller independent grocers are actually advantaged in the short term, as smaller stores tend to play in more localized markets than their major chain competitors.
From Salon ● Apr. 24, 2026
I wanted students more aware of their differences from persons less advantaged.
From "Hunger of Memory" by Richard Rodriguez
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“We urgently need a smart export-control strategy that applies robust export controls to deny our adversaries access to advanced technology, while advantaging U.S. companies,” McGuire wrote.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 13, 2026
The administration wants to gain visibility into frontier capabilities without slowing American labs and advantaging China.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 9, 2026
Further advantaging them might hamstring the promising open-source A.I. movement—a crucial area of competition—to the point of obsolescence.
From Slate ● Nov. 14, 2023
Smith agreed, pointing out laws advantaging employers at the expense of workers when it came to organizing into early forms of unions.
From The Guardian ● Dec. 14, 2019
Are you not the fools to be advantaging yourselves of comforts you might be sure no fairy left for Campbells in Dalness?
From John Splendid The Tale of a Poor Gentleman, and the Little Wars of Lorn by Neil Munro
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