advantage
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In California, an incredibly tight housing market and high rents are fueling a new generation of real estate scams that take advantage of people desperate to find an affordable place to live.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 31, 2026
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
"I would be surprised if any one candidate emerges with a decisive numerical advantage."
From Barron's ● Jul. 30, 2026
England built an early lead before Australia crept their way back to have the advantage shortly after halfway.
From BBC ● Jul. 30, 2026
Besides keeping people farther away from harm, a big advantage of this is the ability to monitor a greater number of places.
From "Mountain of Fire" by Rebecca E. F. Barone
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Before the outbreak, Taco Bell had found its stride — and analysts say its operational advantages could carry it through the rough patch.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 31, 2026
There are advantages to taking Social Security at 70.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 28, 2026
They appear to have understood that elephant bone offered advantages over more widely available animal bones.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 27, 2026
Grim though it sounds, grief can bring electoral advantages.
From Slate ● Jul. 24, 2026
Kepler had none of the advantages of birth which had given Tycho a head start in life.
From "The Scientists" by John Gribbin
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“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
LA28 chief Allison Katz-Mayfield called the random ticket-drawing process "the fairest way to ensure that the broadest number of people can get access to tickets and that no one is advantaged or disadvantaged".
From BBC ● Jan. 14, 2026
The Spring, Texas, company said its advantaged assets are central to its new guidance.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 9, 2025
Much of his remaining “Dancing with the Stars” competition is advantaged in physical strength and agility.
From Salon ● Nov. 4, 2025
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 Munro, Neil
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