advantage
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The company should “take advantage of this rare moment in time when everything is lining up for them — and later down the road, when growth slows, look into buybacks,” Rocco told MarketWatch.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 5, 2026
It formed a joint venture with JLR in 2012 to take advantage of China’s then-insatiable appetite for Western luxury cars.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 5, 2026
The 37-year-old and co-driver Scott Martin had led for much of the 2026 season and took a 21-point advantage into the final round in Sardinia.
From BBC ● Oct. 4, 2026
“When we have the opportunity to make a play, we need to make that play and take advantage of it.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 3, 2026
Worsley took advantage of the argument to get an extra dig into the pot with his spoon.
From "Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World" by Jennifer Armstrong
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“Bears questioned whether those advantages are narrowing amid slower growth and rising regulatory pressures.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 29, 2026
He manages more than 300 people at the district attorney’s office and spent decades in the courtroom securing high-profile convictions — advantages that he contends outweigh his lack of civil litigation experience.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 27, 2026
Hillman said there were advantages and disadvantages to being a commuter student.
From BBC ● Sep. 24, 2026
With a vibrant social scene and plenty of recreation, it provides a realistic baseline for comparing the financial advantages of living and working abroad.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 22, 2026
Knowing how fencing had saved him from a life of dead ends, he decided he wanted to help other young kids without a lot of advantages.
From "Proud" by Ibtihaj Muhammad
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Daniel Kebede, general secretary of the National Education Union, said current tests and assessments in schools "set many students up to fail, overwhelmingly those from less advantaged backgrounds".
From BBC ● Jul. 14, 2026
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
Amid a rebalancing of supply and demand for liquidity in the private BDC space, listed BDCs, which benefit from permanent capital and daily liquidity, “are structurally advantaged and can emerge as net winners,” KBW wrote.
From Barron's ● Apr. 7, 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
I wanted students more aware of their differences from persons less advantaged.
From "Hunger of Memory" by Richard Rodriguez
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The administration wants to gain visibility into frontier capabilities without slowing American labs and advantaging China.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 9, 2026
“Past tech revolutions have tended to bypass older workers because they haven’t necessarily built those tech skills. But we’re finding that AI is advantaging those who have expertise.”
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 26, 2025
“Increased emphasis on these elements, we found, has the effect of advantaging the advantaged.”
From New York Times ● Feb. 22, 2024
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
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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