disadvantage
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There is not necessarily an advantage or disadvantage to a discount to NAV.
From MarketWatch • Jun. 9, 2026
Soon, multiplexes emerged, which put the Westwood Village location at a disadvantage.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 3, 2026
But Arm as a PC platform remains at a software-development disadvantage vis-à-vis x86, including in areas such as gaming, which remains an important end market for Nvidia.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 2, 2026
The same mechanism that produces unequal economic opportunity also produces unequal political opportunity—and in politics, the disadvantage compounds across stages.
From Slate • May 22, 2026
A milk producer in northern Japan cannot hope to compete in southern Japan, because transporting milk there would take an extra day or two, a fatal disadvantage in the eyes of consumers.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
Vocabulary lists containing disadvantage
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