advantage
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Meanwhile, he had to be up early Thursday, so he figured he might as well take advantage of the opportunity for a little extra sleep rather than stay up late to suffer through a blowout.
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
Detecting such subtle atmospheric differences required taking advantage of a common characteristic of close-orbiting gas giants.
From Science Daily • Jun. 11, 2026
"There's something stirring in the waters, and he sees that and he wants to take advantage of it," she said.
From Barron's • Jun. 10, 2026
While hardly true, this explanation had the demonstrable advantage of permitting Jefferson’s vision of a Federalist conspiracy to congeal in a plausible pattern that formed around Washington without touching him directly.
From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis
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