disadvantage
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The company is also looking to Washington, arguing that tariff relief extended by the Trump administration to South Korea and Japan has placed the automaker at a competitive disadvantage to its Asian rivals.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 7, 2026
“Maybe the business is already at a disadvantage and then they get into an MCA, which makes things even worse.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 28, 2026
Ash and other members told MarketWatch that they believed the status quo left American consumers at a disadvantage.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 20, 2026
The experiments revealed that the nightjar's broad wing tips, which likely help it maneuver during slow flight, become a disadvantage as the bird flies faster.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 17, 2026
“But Quinton had the same disadvantage and he was able to make Junior Agent.”
From "Amari and the Night Brothers" by B.B. Alston
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Annuities are good for guaranteed income, but they do have their disadvantages, Haas added.
From MarketWatch ● Nov. 6, 2026
Hillman said there were advantages and disadvantages to being a commuter student.
From BBC ● Sep. 24, 2026
The 2025 study also notes the cost and lack of residual protection as important disadvantages of whole structure fumigation.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 19, 2026
The disadvantages of Broadcom’s AI-chip strategy are also coming into sharper focus as the financial capacity of the healthiest tech companies gets stretched.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 2, 2026
We compare strategy; the quality of each side’s military intelligence; the strength of their positions—and then we total up each side’s advantages and disadvantages like we’re doing an arithmetic problem.
From "Blink" by Malcolm Gladwell
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Many French recruits were from disadvantaged suburbs of major cities and faced limited opportunities.
From Barron's ● Nov. 2, 2026
Ralston, by contrast, has elected to teach those languages to those so disadvantaged: “Hardly any of our incoming students have any Greek.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 30, 2026
About half of the student body at Da Vinci Communications, the public charter school where Jackson still teaches, is economically disadvantaged, according to U.S.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 26, 2026
Despite investment over the past decade to boost the chances of pupils from these areas, "when you look at the breakdown by school, it's often the most disadvantaged schools that lack resources".
From Barron's ● Oct. 16, 2026
To work, however, not as leaders but in order that the socially disadvantaged could lead their own lives.
From "Hunger of Memory" by Richard Rodriguez
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He also argued that ranking applicants by SAT scores ends up disadvantaging high-achieving low-income, first-generation and underrepresented minorities.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 27, 2026
This arrangement allows students at the top of the curve to distinguish themselves, while not disadvantaging the majority of those who earn a “P.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 23, 2025
Greer accused Brazil of disadvantaging American exports by offering lower tariffs to other trade partners.
From BBC ● Jul. 15, 2025
A Stellantis spokeswoman noted that the company has said it wants an agreement “that fairly rewards our workforce for their contribution to our success, without significantly disadvantaging Stellantis against our nonunion competitors.”
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 5, 2023
Like the others, the White House version suggests numerous practices that developers and users of AI software should voluntarily follow to prevent the technology from unfairly disadvantaging people.
From Reuters ● Oct. 4, 2022
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