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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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 2018 With summer slipping into our vantage, a want of bikini-ready bodies—and the ensembles to show them off—is less of a chilly day dream and more of a two-months-away reality. — Calin Van Paris, Vogue, "Only Bella Hadid Can Pull Off Crop Top Abs This Extreme," 30 Apr. 2018 The players and their instruments appeared in miniature, but thanks to the hall’s acoustic design, their sound was as crisp from this unusual vantage as from any seat down below. — Keith Williams, New York Times, "How Do You Change the Light Bulbs in Carnegie Hall?," 12 Apr. 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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