advantage
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Semiconductor equipment maker Lam Research, No. 3 on the list, sees AI as both a growth opportunity and a competitive advantage, according to Ava Harter, its senior vice president and chief legal officer.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 23, 2026
Despite taking omega-3 supplements daily, participants showed no significant cognitive advantage over those who received a placebo.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 22, 2026
Often they were seemingly simple premises that took advantage of legal loopholes — perhaps most famous was when he rebranded a local coffee shop as “Dumb Starbucks.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 22, 2026
But if you say, this is taking advantage of you, this is how they make their money, because over time you are going to lose, then that may be a better way of explaining it.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 22, 2026
Much of Steve Eisman wanted to believe the worst, and that gave him a huge tactical advantage in the U.S. financial markets circa 2007.
From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis
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On the other hand, anyone buying TIPS, even very long-term TIPS, has two advantages.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 23, 2026
Beyond providing sustained symptom relief, hydrodissection offered several practical advantages.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 22, 2026
A lack of a substantial governing background has its advantages, too, as it allows her to draw up positions from scratch.
From Slate ● Oct. 22, 2026
He hopes to eventually follow the students into high school and college to examine whether their early academic advantages translate into higher graduation rates and college readiness.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 22, 2026
African American newspapers such as the Chicago Defender, the most widely read black publication, and the Pittsburgh Courier continually published editorials and cartoons showing the great advantages of moving from the South to the North.
From "1919 The Year That Changed America" by Martin W. Sandler
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“This suggests a new phenomenon, with the biggest factor in the overall drop in scores being advantaged students who are performing below what one would expect given their background,” said Schleicher.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 8, 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
“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
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
But, surprisingly enough, she proved of two minds about advantaging herself of the opportunity.
From Nobody by W. L. Jacobs
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