advantageous
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But as important is the emperor’s-new-clothes effect, which determines when it’s personally advantageous to ignore plainly obvious realities.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 18, 2026
Features such as stingers, specialized nesting behaviors and other biological traits may have created conditions that made cooperation more advantageous and helped sophisticated insect societies emerge again and again.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 15, 2026
Would increased synergy with the UK - Europe's second-largest economy and a military power, despite its well-documented problems - not be advantageous for the EU under these new circumstances?
From BBC ● Jun. 22, 2026
“I don’t mandate it. With Justin, I really just showed him where I thought it would be advantageous, and he didn’t blink for a second and was excited to attack it.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 17, 2026
“This is a preliminary maneuver, to place you in an advantageous position.”
From "The Night Circus" by Erin Morgenstern
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Vocabulary lists containing advantageous
Evolutionary Biology - Adaptation
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"Simon's Saga," Vocabulary from Episode 10
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