to advantage

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This novel, winner of the Booker Prize, uses a blunt, clipped style to advantage, exposing Istvan as an exemplar of both toxic masculinity and hinting at what’s required to escape it.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 8, 2025

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

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

Colored walls display to advantage the museum’s deep collection of Charles Willson Peale and other American painters.

From New York Times • May 30, 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