vantage
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Synonyms & Antonyms for vantage
Synonyms
advantage, better, bulge, catbird seat, drop, edge, high ground, inside track, jump, pull, stead, upper hand, whip hand
Antonyms
disadvantage, drawback, handicap, liability, minus, penalty, strike
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Set on a three-quarter-acre lot, the Tuscan-style villa has the highest vantage in the neighborhood and views extending as far as the ocean. — Jack Flemming, latimes.com, "Retired baseball slugger Jermaine Dye looks to crush a home sale in San Diego," 15 Mar. 2018 Just out of sight is the State Capitol dome, a landmark that the new projects could obstruct from some vantages. — Scott Wilson, The Seattle Times, "Once flat and wide on the frontier, Western cityscapes are now rising tall and sleek," 4 Feb. 2019 The story, from the narrator’s curious vantage in limbo, wends inside Eden’s consciousness, reproducing his memories and imagining his perceptions from his new home in the burn center, throttled by pain and hallucinations. — Sam Sacks, WSJ, "Fiction: When Nowhere Felt Like Home," 20 Sep. 2018 Arguably, that’s because Russell is an outsider viewing the action from a removed vantage and never really breaking past that distant point of observation. — Tasha Robinson, The Verge, "Netflix’s Hold the Dark throws Jeffrey Wright to the wolves," 28 Sep. 2018 A half-mile further, invisible from this vantage, was Kaliningrad, a last vestige of the superpower that once enveloped Lithuania. — Henry Wismayer, WSJ, "An Unmissable Summer Holiday in the Baltics," 22 Aug. 2018 Queqiao, orbiting a gravitational balance point beyond the moon called L2, will offer a quieter vantage. — Daniel Clery, Science | AAAS, "China’s moon mission will probe cosmic dark ages," 16 May 2018 Mosley and White were obscured by trees from his vantage when they were killed. — Max Londberg, kansascity, "'Will he get justice?' Dad of man killed downtown by KC police calls for body cameras," 21 June 2018 From her vantage on the front lines of the issue, Rodriguez emphasizes that there is variety of ways to help, not just through the donation of money. — Lee A. Litas, chicagotribune.com, "Local clothing company makes helping homeless a central part of business," 14 May 2018These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'vantage.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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