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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
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
Maury’s students, as is typical with more advantaged children, score higher on standardized tests, and some parents are anxious about whether a merger could bring down averages.
—Lauren Lumpkin, Washington Post, 14 Feb. 2024
But the people who will be hardest hit by this policy are students from less advantaged backgrounds who stand to gain the most from going to university.
—Nick Morrison, Forbes, 17 July 2023
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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
Maury’s students, as is typical with more advantaged children, score higher on standardized tests, and some parents are anxious about whether a merger could bring down averages.
—Lauren Lumpkin, Washington Post, 14 Feb. 2024
But the people who will be hardest hit by this policy are students from less advantaged backgrounds who stand to gain the most from going to university.
—Nick Morrison, Forbes, 17 July 2023
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for advantaged
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Elsbeth very kindly and firmly turns down her request for obviously privileged information.Sophie Brookover, Vulture, 14 Nov. 2024
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Cera will play a naïve rebel who tries to help the desperate man, while Jones is playing a privileged woman blind to the oppression of the government.Borys Kit, The Hollywood Reporter, 28 Oct. 2024
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Musk, who is the CEO of Space X and Tesla, has benefitted from billions of dollars worth of federal contracts, including from NASA, the military and other US government agencies, and the announcement raised immediate concerns about potential conflicts of interest.CNN.com Wire Service, The Mercury News, 16 Nov. 2024
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Quick-service restaurants have benefited from slower growth in labor costs, Square found.J.J. McCorvey, NBC News, 13 Nov. 2024
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The sidewalks will approximately double in width, with another band of space given over to tree pits, supplying a blessed bit of shade.Christopher Bonanos, Curbed, 17 Oct. 2024
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From anger to mourning to sadness to gratefulness to even feeling blessed to be able to sit here and write this post, processing the reasons behind September 4th will be a long road which will most likely, never be truly understood.Emily Shapiro, ABC News, 16 Sep. 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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Adjusted for inflation, pay has increased very little since 2010, which means people aren’t substantially better-off.Hanna Ziady, CNN, 5 July 2024
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“Advantaged.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/advantaged. Accessed 22 Nov. 2024.
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