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take advantage of

VERB
impose upon
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Owners holding ultralow fixed-rate mortgages can take advantage of the strong rental demand, he said.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 17, 2026

That offers a clear opening for others to act in unpredictable ways to take advantage of the situation.

From Salon Sep. 17, 2026

"There are good and bad people everywhere and the bad lot try to take advantage of that."

From BBC Sep. 16, 2026

Because some DNA sequences can be programmed to interact more strongly than others, scientists may eventually be able to take advantage of these properties to build customized DNA structures for biotechnology.

From Science Daily Sep. 10, 2026

Now she was planning to take advantage of the rare day off and do some errands.

From "The 57 Bus" by Dashka Slater




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