advantage
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The company’s first-mover advantage in quantum could boost its fortunes the way being a first mover in GPUs did for Nvidia, he recently told The Wall Street Journal.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 30, 2026
Instead, the stuntman said, Blake complained about how his wife was taking advantage of him.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 30, 2026
The Stevens campaign, though, is banking heavily on turning out Black voters, among whom she enjoys a significant advantage, in metro Detroit.
From Slate ● Jul. 30, 2026
Ellis: The biggest advantage anyone has is time.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 29, 2026
It’s the kind of energy that makes me swim faster, and I plan to use it to my full advantage today.
From "Red Flags and Butterflies" by Sheryl Azzam
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Multiply that across the market, and those advantages cancel out.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 29, 2026
Were she to run for the Democratic presidential nomination in 2028, Kamala Harris would enter the race with formidable advantages.
From Salon ● Jul. 27, 2026
Grim though it sounds, grief can bring electoral advantages.
From Slate ● Jul. 24, 2026
Researchers suggest that such exposure could offer nutritional advantages or other benefits, including possible immune regulation.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 23, 2026
Make no mistake, there are advantages to an invisibility uniform.
From "I'll Give You the Sun" by Jandy Nelson
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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
“Sun Belt states are experiencing markets with the most advantaged buyers, while markets in the Northeast and Midwest frequently remain advantaged toward sellers.”
From MarketWatch ● Mar. 12, 2026
Still, the analysts continue to view Coupang as structurally advantaged in the local e-commerce market, citing limited direct competition from rivals and the high costs of customers switching to other online retailers.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 17, 2025
We lived well, our days were mostly sunny, and I know that my parents were stoically undeceived by the objectively equivocal, contingent nature of the advantaged life they gave me and my siblings.
From "Class Matters" by The New York Times
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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
“Increased emphasis on these elements, we found, has the effect of advantaging the advantaged.”
From New York Times ● Feb. 22, 2024
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
With the closing years of the second decade of the mill growth, most of these advantaging circumstances were fading before the increase of competition.
From The Rise of Cotton Mills in the South by Mitchell, Broadus
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