advantage
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The same moves tend to attract scammers who take advantage of people when they are most vulnerable.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 16, 2026
Green Party leader Zack Polanski said: "It's disgusting to see these unscrupulous law firms taking advantage of people like this or taking advantage of a system like this."
From BBC • Apr. 15, 2026
Even if a driver wants to take advantage of this discount, it still may not be possible for them to make, say, a 30-minute trip to save $5, he said.
From MarketWatch • Apr. 15, 2026
But a 2021 set at a notorious homeless encampment in Oakland earned backlash from advocates, who said the band was taking advantage of desperate people to throw aesthetically nihilistic punk shows.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 15, 2026
The advantage of this second field was that it wasn’t obvious from the air.
From "A Thousand Sisters" by Elizabeth Wein
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