advantage
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This season, he’s healthy, wiser and ready to improvise even more to take advantage of his running and passing skills.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 26, 2026
For example, Iran’s Shahed attack drone, which features Chinese components, has threatened U.S. allies and eroded America’s military advantage.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 26, 2026
The original trial found no significant advantage for either diet when it came to weight loss.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 26, 2026
Given our ages and circumstances, is there an advantage to making conversions?
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 25, 2026
Surprisingly, after only eleven moves, he’d almost magically built a positional advantage.
From "Endgame" by Frank Brady
Are there tax advantages or disadvantages to leaving my assets directly to charities?
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 24, 2026
It’s clear that Raising Cane’s leadership is aware of these advantages, as it has zero intentions of going public in the near future.
From Slate ● Aug. 24, 2026
Still, for entrepreneurs focused on the immediate task of launching new companies, being in California also carries big advantages, according to Randolph.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 20, 2026
For Celtic, with all the advantages they hold over most others in Scotland, the true barometer is Europe.
From BBC ● Aug. 19, 2026
As it turned out, being the Agency's first female officer in Moscow had its advantages: The KGB never caught on to her real position in the CIA.
From "Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia" by Marc Favreau
“Our operations team demonstrated why they are the best in the business, putting us in an advantaged position to bring forward material value on our differentiated asset base.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 3, 2026
"The size of the gap between the educational outcomes of children from more and less advantaged backgrounds is a scourge on our society," Julie McCulloch, chief executive of the EPI said.
From BBC ● Jul. 14, 2026
“Sun Belt states are experiencing markets with the most advantaged buyers, while markets in the Northeast and Midwest frequently remain advantaged toward sellers.”
From MarketWatch ● Mar. 12, 2026
Health savings accounts are triple-tax advantaged accounts: money is contributed tax free, grows tax free, and can be withdrawn tax-free now or in retirement to pay for qualified medical expenses.
From Barron's ● Nov. 24, 2025
We lived well, our days were mostly sunny, and I know that my parents were stoically undeceived by the objectively equivocal, contingent nature of the advantaged life they gave me and my siblings.
From "Class Matters" by The New York Times
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
Are you not the fools to be advantaging yourselves of comforts you might be sure no fairy left for Campbells in Dalness?
From John Splendid The Tale of a Poor Gentleman, and the Little Wars of Lorn by Neil Munro
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