advantage
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Related: As a nurse, I’ve seen people use their power of attorney to take advantage of their parents.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 9, 2026
“We expect the added scale to compound that advantage: greater efficiency across a larger operating base, and an expanded value-add renovation program and other income initiatives across a larger platform,” he added.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 9, 2026
Alcaraz edged the opener on a tie-break - but only after surrendering his advantage after breaking for a seemingly decisive 6-5 lead.
From BBC ● Sep. 9, 2026
And of course, they are getting more from the ECB when they take advantage of the deposit facility for their excess cash.
From Barron's ● Sep. 9, 2026
It could give the guerrillas and the Americans added clues and perhaps an advantage.
From "At Last She Stood" by Erin Entrada Kelly
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Its critics typically are those who fear ceding their own traditional advantages to others.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 9, 2026
But as the distance increases, those physical advantages appear to become less relevant and the gap starts to narrow.
From BBC ● Sep. 9, 2026
One of Milwaukee’s advantages is how easily you can use the city as a jumping-off point for a quick Wisconsin road trip.
From Salon ● Sep. 8, 2026
North Korea called the first road bridge across its narrow border with Russia a concrete sign of tightening bonds, state media reported Tuesday, as Pyongyang gains advantages from its powerful neighbours Moscow and Beijing.
From Barron's ● Sep. 8, 2026
To these advantages of Africa’s enormous head start were added those of highly diverse climates and habitats and of the world’s highest human diversity.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
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"The size of the gap between the educational outcomes of children from more and less advantaged backgrounds is a scourge on our society," Julie McCulloch, chief executive of the EPI said.
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
We lived well, our days were mostly sunny, and I know that my parents were stoically undeceived by the objectively equivocal, contingent nature of the advantaged life they gave me and my siblings.
From "Class Matters" by The New York Times
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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
It is self-love: worshipping thyself, comforting thyself, advantaging thyself, and regarding all others as either toys or slaves for that great idol, thyself.
From In Convent Walls The Story of the Despensers by M. (Madelaine) Irwin
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