advantage
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“That kind of capability directly disrupts the operational advantage these transnational criminal organizations rely on, and it strengthens our ability to protect both Texas communities and the broader region,” he said in an email.
From Salon ● Sep. 6, 2026
The advantage of this location "is that you can use the original tunnel's roof as your little tunnel's roof. Also, it mitigates risk of flooding," said Dix.
From BBC ● Sep. 4, 2026
Some companies have taken advantage of the windfall by executing pension-risk transfers, shifting obligations to life insurers through annuity buyouts.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 4, 2026
Life inside microbial mats can be harsh, and close cooperation between organisms may provide a crucial survival advantage even at microscopic scales.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 3, 2026
The merchant understands the advantage of US-China trade for his business.
From "The Red Car to Hollywood" by Jennie Liu
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The higher operating profit margin reflects internal synergies and the advantages of revenue at scale, Myers said, as well as HPE’s ability to pass through higher input costs, especially around memory, to its customers.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 2, 2026
Owners can largely lock in their housing costs over decades and there are tax advantages to owning.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 2, 2026
Importantly though, Zheng'an has natural advantages in its favour.
From Barron's ● Aug. 31, 2026
Pet dogs offer several advantages for researchers studying aging.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 29, 2026
The immediate causes of that language replacement were the advantages in technology and political organization, stemming ultimately from the advantage of an early rise of food production, that invading Europeans held over Native Americans.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
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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
“If that isn’t a signal to grow production in an advantaged area like the Permian Basin, then I don’t know what is,” said CEO Kaes Van’t Hof on Diamondback’s earnings call early Tuesday.
From Barron's ● May 5, 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
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
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
Smith agreed, pointing out laws advantaging employers at the expense of workers when it came to organizing into early forms of unions.
From The Guardian ● Dec. 14, 2019
But, surprisingly enough, she proved of two minds about advantaging herself of the opportunity.
From Nobody by W. L. Jacobs
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