disadvantage
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The lack of opportunity is putting many young adults at a disadvantage as youth unemployment rises.
From MarketWatch • Jun. 8, 2026
Soon, multiplexes emerged, which put the Westwood Village location at a disadvantage.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 3, 2026
A prolific group stage is a good start for Golden Boot hopefuls, but if your team do not make progress in the knockout stages, you are at a huge disadvantage.
From BBC • Jun. 3, 2026
But Arm as a PC platform remains at a software-development disadvantage vis-à-vis x86, including in areas such as gaming, which remains an important end market for Nvidia.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 2, 2026
I called to mind that the clerk had the same air of knowing something to everybody else’s disadvantage, as his master had.
From "Great Expectations" by Charles Dickens
Vocabulary lists containing disadvantage
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