disadvantage

Example Sentences

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"The biggest competitive disadvantage right now is energy prices," said Reiche.

From Barron's • Mar. 26, 2026

Bores’s bar gathering in Manhattan drew a crowd of college students and recent graduates who expressed concern about AI wiping out entry-level jobs and putting their generation at a disadvantage.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 20, 2026

He is more natural out wide but Fletcher and others are of the view he is better suited currently to a central position, so his physicality does not become a disadvantage.

From BBC • Mar. 19, 2026

The concerns were exacerbated after Blue Owl Capital attempted a merger of a public and a private fund that the latter’s investors feared would have put them at a disadvantage.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 13, 2026

This suggested to me the Optimal Fragmentation Principle: innovation proceeds most rapidly in a society with some optimal intermediate degree of fragmentation: a too-unified society is at a disadvantage, and so is a too-fragmented society.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond