advantage
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It lasted only a few seconds, but Short took advantage of the moment.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 15, 2026
Students from wealthier families may already have connections to internships, family businesses or professional networks that give them an advantage.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 15, 2026
And when interest rates are stable, banks “can use that as an advantage, as an opportunity to trickle savings rates lower,” he said.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 14, 2026
That pact would build on an existing free trade agreement called CETA, which Sanchez said has unrealized potential as small and medium-sized firms are not yet taking advantage of its benefits.
From Barron's ● Sep. 14, 2026
Tamara and Raya had the advantage of height and the sun behind them, which would dazzle the enemy pilots if they looked in their direction.
From "A Thousand Sisters" by Elizabeth Wein
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“While Medacta’s competitive advantages remain intact, sustaining its historical growth rates will become increasingly challenging as the business scales,” Deutsche Bank says.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 15, 2026
Children raised in two-parent families in which one parent is employed full time already have a host of advantages, while children raised in low-income single-parent households are more likely to face significant challenges.
From Slate ● Sep. 14, 2026
Tracy has the advantages that Susanville does not: It’s next to Interstate 5 along a busy commercial corridor in a populated and growing section of the state.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 13, 2026
He is still an underdog against Garcia - a fighter with greater amateur pedigree and a more accomplished professional resume - but Benn's size and physical pressure could become one of his biggest advantages.
From BBC ● Sep. 12, 2026
My people had been brought here against their will—without the advantages of speaking English, understanding what democracy meant, or knowing anything about how people lived here.
From "March Forward, Girl" by Melba Pattillo Beals
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The new data also found that pupils from more advantaged socio-economic backgrounds continued to perform better on average.
From BBC ● Sep. 8, 2026
“This suggests a new phenomenon, with the biggest factor in the overall drop in scores being advantaged students who are performing below what one would expect given their background,” said Schleicher.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 8, 2026
"The market environment was clearly supportive. But market conditions alone do not explain results," said the company, which also touted "reliable operations, optimization in advantaged assets and high-value products across our businesses."
From Barron's ● Jul. 31, 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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The administration wants to gain visibility into frontier capabilities without slowing American labs and advantaging China.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 9, 2026
“Past tech revolutions have tended to bypass older workers because they haven’t necessarily built those tech skills. But we’re finding that AI is advantaging those who have expertise.”
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 26, 2025
“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
Three powers advantaging a Chieftain most Are Peace and Justice and an Armed Host.
From A Celtic Psaltery by Alfred Perceval Graves
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