advantage
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Even when the Knicks rallied in the second half, the Spurs still held a 20-point advantage with a little more than nine minutes left in the game.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 11, 2026
Activist investors who want to force changes at underperforming closed-end funds take advantage of this rule by buying up a bunch of shares and then trying to change how the fund is run.
From Slate • Jun. 11, 2026
Polymarket has an advantage there: U.S. states with the highest Hispanic populations, namely Texas and California, have yet to legalize traditional sports betting.
From Barron's • Jun. 11, 2026
I feel like he may be taking advantage of us because we don’t have much knowledge about them.
From MarketWatch • Jun. 11, 2026
Parks Canada is also taking advantage of another technological development called stereophotogrammetry, which produces pictures in pairs and then synthesizes hundreds of these pairings to produce extraordinarily clear images of whatever object is being studied.
From "Shipwrecked!" by Martin W. Sandler
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