How to Use advantageous in a Sentence
advantageous
adjective- Her experience placed her in an advantageous position to apply for the job.
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The home team gets the last change so the coach can get the more advantageous matchup.
—Stephen Whyno, The Seattle Times, 28 Apr. 2017
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But in the long run, this turned out to be an advantageous move.
—Jordana Cepelewicz, WIRED, 4 Aug. 2024
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Will Auburn be able to make the most of an advantageous opening stretch?
—Tom Green | Tgreen@al.com, al, 3 Aug. 2022
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But that advantageous margin flipped to a six-point deficit at the half.
—Norma Gonzalez, The Salt Lake Tribune, 17 Oct. 2020
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The Jaguars' mix of star talent and depth could be very advantageous.
—J.l. Kirven, The Courier-Journal, 28 Nov. 2022
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Bracy said the project would be more advantageous if the project was in a more rural area of the county.
—Tracy Neal, arkansasonline.com, 21 Dec. 2023
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Because right now, a home-and-home with a Group of Five is not advantageous for us.
—Matt Murschel, Orlando Sentinel, 18 June 2024
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Cho said moving up in the second round from the 41st pick to 31 should be advantageous.
—Rick Bonnell, charlotteobserver, 21 June 2017
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This can be advantageous for a franchise like the Warriors, who are poised to have a top-five pick for the first time since 2002.
—Connor Letourneau, SFChronicle.com, 13 June 2020
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The key, though, is getting the 6-foot-4 standout into advantageous spots on the field.
—Andrew Gillis, cleveland, 21 Aug. 2023
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The Bengals’ have a very advantageous schedule early in the season to get off to a strong start.
—The Enquirer, 8 Sep. 2023
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So, this game type is more advantageous for high rollers who are willing to bet more at once.
—Sponsored Content, The Mercury News, 11 Mar. 2024
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There are quite a few things that Republicans can and should do to press the pro-life case in an advantageous way.
—The Editors, National Review, 9 Sep. 2023
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The advantageous matchups for both D-lines, plus the absence of two of Houston's top receivers, make the under a strong play.
—Gordon G. Chang, Newsweek, 31 Oct. 2024
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That’s why cold layups are seen as advantageous only in the event of an outage stretching to many months.
—Fran Golden, Fortune, 11 July 2020
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The waters off southern New England are among the most advantageous in the world for offshore wind.
—Michael Passero, Hartford Courant, 28 June 2024
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In a new study, Carvunis and her team tested whether young ORFs can be advantageous for cells.
—Mitch Leslie, Science | AAAS, 17 Oct. 2019
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Last year, Cabral was injured so when the Olympics were postponed to this summer, that was advantageous for him.
—Lori Riley, courant.com, 17 June 2021
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These are all things that are advantageous to our nation.
—Emma Hinchliffe, Fortune, 19 Apr. 2021
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But Trump faces much less advantageous terrain in the 2020 election that Bush did.
—Matt Ford, The New Republic, 4 Nov. 2020
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The costs of building, say, a few hundred miles of solar wall in the most advantageous places, could make the payback far shorter.
—Laurent Belsie, The Christian Science Monitor, 8 June 2017
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And the deal was killed because Donald Trump said that this was not going to be advantageous to my campaign.
—CBS News, 15 Sep. 2024
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But in a group with big names, Andries Jonker’s side slipping under the radar could be advantageous.
—Julia Ranney, New York Times, 9 Apr. 2025
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In ground combat, holding a hill is advantageous to holding the ground at the base of it, as those on the top of the hill can shoot down onto the heads of their adversaries.
—Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 17 Aug. 2020
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In the case of humans, one theory holds that the loss of body hair proved advantageous for hunting in warm climates.
—Mark Johnson, Anchorage Daily News, 24 Jan. 2023
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So far, the winter has unfolded in a very advantageous way statewide, Schwartz said.
—Paul Rogers, The Mercury News, 27 Feb. 2024
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Being the first isn’t always the most advantageous route if customers aren’t ready for the problem your product solves.
—Greg Coticchia, Forbes, 17 May 2022
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Upon further review, the Rays decided the deal was no longer advantageous.
—John Romano, Orlando Sentinel, 15 Mar. 2025
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These advances may have been particularly advantageous when Earth’s magnetic poles switched a bit, according to a study published April 16 in the journal Science Advances.
—Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 16 Apr. 2025
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