advantage
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Ian Fujiyama, the head of Carlyle’s aerospace, defense and government practice, said his firm took equity in Castelion to take advantage of the company’s promise to design and manufacture weaponry on a tight timeline.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 19, 2026
Baleba's ability to carry the ball over large distances makes him a good player to take advantage of these situations.
From BBC ● Aug. 19, 2026
Xu said that in the L.A. area, the numbers suggest the advantage of renting, at least for smaller homes, could be increasing.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 19, 2026
Other factors include multipliers for even-strength goals, as opposed to those scored when the team has a power-play advantage while a player on the other team sits in the penalty box.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 18, 2026
Nor did his insider knowledge of interest rates ever tempt him to take personal advantage: “But you remember the saying with regard to Caesar’s Wife,” he wrote to Henry Lee.
From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis
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Even with the advantages into which they were born, their career was not easily won; it was earned.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 17, 2026
Climate change has had some advantages for Germany's winegrowers over the years, allowing them to experiment with grape varieties better suited to warmer climes and making cultivation possible in new areas.
From Barron's ● Aug. 16, 2026
Rather than carefully comparing the advantages and disadvantages of every available option, people may rely on memories of what they chose previously.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 13, 2026
According to Bray, Clariant has two advantages over the diversified chemicals sector.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 12, 2026
As it turned out, being the Agency's first female officer in Moscow had its advantages: The KGB never caught on to her real position in the CIA.
From "Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia" by Marc Favreau
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Counterintuitively, Ross said, smaller independent grocers are actually advantaged in the short term, as smaller stores tend to play in more localized markets than their major chain competitors.
From Salon ● Apr. 24, 2026
“Sun Belt states are experiencing markets with the most advantaged buyers, while markets in the Northeast and Midwest frequently remain advantaged toward sellers.”
From MarketWatch ● Mar. 12, 2026
Waste Management is the most strategically advantaged company in North American waste disposal.
From Barron's ● Jan. 16, 2026
LA28 chief Allison Katz-Mayfield called the random ticket-drawing process "the fairest way to ensure that the broadest number of people can get access to tickets and that no one is advantaged or disadvantaged".
From BBC ● Jan. 14, 2026
We lived well, our days were mostly sunny, and I know that my parents were stoically undeceived by the objectively equivocal, contingent nature of the advantaged life they gave me and my siblings.
From "Class Matters" by The New York Times
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“We urgently need a smart export-control strategy that applies robust export controls to deny our adversaries access to advanced technology, while advantaging U.S. companies,” McGuire wrote.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 13, 2026
The administration wants to gain visibility into frontier capabilities without slowing American labs and advantaging China.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 9, 2026
Further advantaging them might hamstring the promising open-source A.I. movement—a crucial area of competition—to the point of obsolescence.
From Slate ● Nov. 14, 2023
Smith agreed, pointing out laws advantaging employers at the expense of workers when it came to organizing into early forms of unions.
From The Guardian ● Dec. 14, 2019
With the closing years of the second decade of the mill growth, most of these advantaging circumstances were fading before the increase of competition.
From The Rise of Cotton Mills in the South by Broadus Mitchell
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