disadvantage
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“Maybe the business is already at a disadvantage and then they get into an MCA, which makes things even worse.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 28, 2026
The experiments revealed that the nightjar's broad wing tips, which likely help it maneuver during slow flight, become a disadvantage as the bird flies faster.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 17, 2026
Tether voiced concern that its competitors would influence the legislation to disadvantage the company.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 15, 2026
"I think she is starting from a position of such incredible disadvantage that just getting her to the starting line is incredibly difficult," her mum said.
From BBC ● Oct. 12, 2026
I called to mind that the clerk had the same air of knowing something to everybody else’s disadvantage, as his master had.
From "Great Expectations" by Charles Dickens
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Although effective, these procedures come with practical disadvantages.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 5, 2026
"Every method has its advantages and disadvantages, and we believe in a complementary implementation in the future," Kueppers said.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 17, 2026
The disadvantages of Broadcom’s AI-chip strategy are also coming into sharper focus as the financial capacity of the healthiest tech companies gets stretched.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 2, 2026
But financial advisers are starting to be more honest about owning’s disadvantages too.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 2, 2026
I was beginning to see that growing up knowing only one other person had some serious disadvantages.
From "Schooled" by Gordon Korman
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Ralston, by contrast, has elected to teach those languages to those so disadvantaged: “Hardly any of our incoming students have any Greek.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 30, 2026
French media has also asked whether there's been an alliance of convenience, however informal or incidental, between two groups of youths: ultra-left activists and young people from France's disadvantaged neighbourhoods.
From BBC ● Oct. 29, 2026
About half of the student body at Da Vinci Communications, the public charter school where Jackson still teaches, is economically disadvantaged, according to U.S.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 26, 2026
Despite investment over the past decade to boost the chances of pupils from these areas, "when you look at the breakdown by school, it's often the most disadvantaged schools that lack resources".
From Barron's ● Oct. 16, 2026
Started in 1964 as a federal initiative, Job Corps was designed to help disadvantaged youth.
From "The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates" by Wes Moore
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Dr Eleanor Drage, a senior researcher at the University of Cambridge, said concerns about AI disadvantaging women in recruitment are "very justified".
From BBC ● Aug. 5, 2026
A unit of SpaceX is suing Apple for disadvantaging its AI app, and the company is now prototyping its own smartphone-like AI device.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 12, 2026
He also argued that ranking applicants by SAT scores ends up disadvantaging high-achieving low-income, first-generation and underrepresented minorities.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 27, 2026
A Stellantis spokeswoman noted that the company has said it wants an agreement “that fairly rewards our workforce for their contribution to our success, without significantly disadvantaging Stellantis against our nonunion competitors.”
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 5, 2023
ANZ's three larger rivals have started considering lending without applying the 3% buffer, saying it is disadvantaging some borrowers.
From Reuters ● Jul. 12, 2023
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