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as in benefited
to provide with something useful or desirable
there's no question that that bicycle racer was significantly advantaged by a great set of genes
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Recent Examples of advantaged
Eyal Press, The New Yorker, 30 Sep. 2024
On the other hand, others believe that AI will exacerbate the problems faced by many of the world’s poorest and least advantaged, further funneling access to wealth and resources to the few.
—Bernard Marr, Forbes, 16 Sep. 2024
That is accelerating the destruction of wetlands, which serve as a critical barrier, and speeding up flooding across the coast, often with less advantaged communities most vulnerable.
—Ricky Carioti, Washington Post, 5 July 2024
The experience is starkly different at some of the district’s more advantaged schools, including its magnet programs open to high-performing students.
—Christine Wen, The Conversation, 15 Feb. 2024
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For much of the past century, its leaders have prided themselves on championing less advantaged people.
—Eyal Press, The New Yorker, 30 Sep. 2024
On the other hand, others believe that AI will exacerbate the problems faced by many of the world’s poorest and least advantaged, further funneling access to wealth and resources to the few.
—Bernard Marr, Forbes, 16 Sep. 2024
That is accelerating the destruction of wetlands, which serve as a critical barrier, and speeding up flooding across the coast, often with less advantaged communities most vulnerable.
—Ricky Carioti, Washington Post, 5 July 2024
The experience is starkly different at some of the district’s more advantaged schools, including its magnet programs open to high-performing students.
—Christine Wen, The Conversation, 15 Feb. 2024
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Awards shows aren’t just about privileged celebrities, but also about the thousands of everyday people who make their livings in support roles — caterers, bartenders, limo drivers, hairstylists, make-up artists and many more.Paul Grein, Billboard, 12 Jan. 2025
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This suggests that more students, particularly those from privileged backgrounds, are leaning back into testing as a way to distinguish themselves.Dr. Aviva Legatt, Forbes, 9 Jan. 2025
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The comedian Jamie Loftus’s previous podcasts have ranged wildly in subject matter—Mensa meetings, Floridian spiritualists, the comic-strip character Cathy—but benefited equally from her attention to detail.Marnie Shure, The Atlantic, 24 Dec. 2024
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Musk, worth some $435 billion as of Monday afternoon, has benefitted from a more than 70% expansion in Tesla’s share price since the November 5 presidential election.Danielle Chemtob, Forbes, 24 Dec. 2024
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This year has been very blessed — a lot has happened.Isabela Raygoza, Billboard, 31 Dec. 2024
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For two hours that afternoon, Jeanie Crawford—a doctor per her credentials, a blessed sorceress per my experience—pulled, tugged, straightened, bent, jabbed, and corrected seemingly every bone in my body.Grayson Haver Currin, Outside Online, 24 Dec. 2024
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All of this opened an opportunity for businesses and better-off Pakistanis to begin importing solar panels from China, which can pay for themselves in as little as two years and free their users from the expensive, unreliable grid.Noah Gordon, Vox, 1 Dec. 2024
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Millennials are also better-off financially than boomers were at the same age.Daniel de Visé, USA TODAY, 19 Oct. 2024
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“Advantaged.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/advantaged. Accessed 20 Jan. 2025.
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