advantage
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One advantage of that system would be the ability of the full council to remove a leader, something that councils cannot do with an elected mayor.
From BBC ● Sep. 17, 2026
A Public Policy Institute of California survey released earlier this week showed Becerra with a 22-point lead over Hilton, driven by Democrats’ large voter registration advantage.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 17, 2026
Huawei is taking advantage of its expertise in telecommunications equipment.
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
At the moment she clearly had the advantage over her brothers, and she readied herself to pounce.
From "The Interrupted Tale" by Maryrose Wood
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The tax code provides some advantages to homeowners, and a mortgage allows buyers to own a large asset with a relatively small initial investment.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 16, 2026
However, as distance increases, those physical advantages appear to become less relevant and the gap starts to narrow.
From BBC ● Sep. 16, 2026
“While Medacta’s competitive advantages remain intact, sustaining its historical growth rates will become increasingly challenging as the business scales,” Deutsche Bank says.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 15, 2026
Children raised in two-parent families in which one parent is employed full time already have a host of advantages, while children raised in low-income single-parent households are more likely to face significant challenges.
From Slate ● Sep. 14, 2026
Here, we must turn to archaeology for evidence of the technological, political, and agricultural advantages that some Asians evidently gained over other Asians.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
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Several contributors felt parents were largely responsible for finding information themselves, with one DfE study, external showing requests to defer school entry were more common among families from more advantaged backgrounds.
From BBC ● Aug. 23, 2026
“Our operations team demonstrated why they are the best in the business, putting us in an advantaged position to bring forward material value on our differentiated asset base.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 3, 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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“We urgently need a smart export-control strategy that applies robust export controls to deny our adversaries access to advanced technology, while advantaging U.S. companies,” McGuire wrote.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 13, 2026
The administration wants to gain visibility into frontier capabilities without slowing American labs and advantaging China.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 9, 2026
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
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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