to advantage

Example Sentences

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Wolff said F1 should consider introducing a rule to prevent teams using one car to back up the field to advantage another driver, as both Racing Bulls and Williams did on Sunday.

From BBC • May 25, 2025

“They do not allege that California’s law seeks to advantage in-state firms or disadvantage out-of-state rivals,” he wrote.

From New York Times • May 11, 2023

Companies would not be permitted to handle intimate data to advantage themselves and to disadvantage us.

From Slate • Jun. 27, 2022

Emhoff has become something of an expert at using his image as a happy-to-be-here outsider to advantage.

From Washington Post • Dec. 19, 2021

Only in this way can the capabilities that come with diversity—lighter, more technical rowers in the bow and stronger, heavier pullers in the middle of the boat, for instance—be turned to advantage rather than disadvantage.

From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown