1
: a position giving a strategic advantage, commanding perspective, or comprehensive view
2
: superiority in a contest
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Examples of vantage in a Sentence
the vantage had all been ours for the first half of the contest
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The fast orbits, of 3 weeks or less, also mean the planets regularly cross the face of the star from the vantage of Earth—and JWST.
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Bydaniel Clery, science.org, 20 June 2024
To avoid this privileged privileging, Pedrosa offers something for everyone: if all aesthetic decisions need to be understood from a particular vantage, then all are valid.
—Emily Watlington, ARTnews.com, 30 July 2024
Seeking to alter the terms of his contest with Hella, Hayek leveraged his power and connections to get a better vantage, to see further than Hella and to make the world work for him.
—Corey Robin, The New Yorker, 29 June 2024
The vantage then rises above the city and the bay, and then out of the atmosphere and into space—a vision of the heavens that outdoes even the splendor conjured, in planetariums of old, by the double-ended Zeiss Mark VI projector.
—Nick Paumgarten, The New Yorker, 22 July 2024
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Bydaniel Clery, science.org, 20 June 2024
To avoid this privileged privileging, Pedrosa offers something for everyone: if all aesthetic decisions need to be understood from a particular vantage, then all are valid.
—Emily Watlington, ARTnews.com, 30 July 2024
Seeking to alter the terms of his contest with Hella, Hayek leveraged his power and connections to get a better vantage, to see further than Hella and to make the world work for him.
—Corey Robin, The New Yorker, 29 June 2024
The vantage then rises above the city and the bay, and then out of the atmosphere and into space—a vision of the heavens that outdoes even the splendor conjured, in planetariums of old, by the double-ended Zeiss Mark VI projector.
—Nick Paumgarten, The New Yorker, 22 July 2024
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“Vantage.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/vantage. Accessed 16 Sep. 2024.
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vantage
noun
van·tage
ˈvant-ij 
: a position giving advantage or a wide view
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