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
I feel like he may be taking advantage of us because we don’t have much knowledge about them.
From MarketWatch • Jun. 11, 2026
Detecting such subtle atmospheric differences required taking advantage of a common characteristic of close-orbiting gas giants.
From Science Daily • Jun. 11, 2026
Then the men and dogs could take advantage of the wide, flat floes to get some exercise.
From "Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World" by Jennifer Armstrong
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