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
Dean Shahan, The Tennessean, 17 Aug. 2025
Criticism over the years has focused broadly on how individual students are shut out of seats, such as poorer students who happen to live in an area designated to a more economically advantaged tier.
—Grace Zokovitch, Boston Herald, 18 June 2025
Roomy Khan, Forbes.com, 11 Sep. 2025
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Verb
Optimize your tax strategy by maximizing contributions to tax-advantaged accounts like 401(k)s, IRAs, and HSAs.
—Dean Shahan, The Tennessean, 17 Aug. 2025
Criticism over the years has focused broadly on how individual students are shut out of seats, such as poorer students who happen to live in an area designated to a more economically advantaged tier.
—Grace Zokovitch, Boston Herald, 18 June 2025
Adjective
The challenges are enormous, the hurdles daunting, the giants advantaged—but that’s what makes the opportunity so electric.
—Roomy Khan, Forbes.com, 11 Sep. 2025
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All of us have in some way benefitted from the policy’s protections, whether through recreation, clean drinking water or otherwise.—
Ryan Gellert,
Time,
9 Sep. 2025
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Electricity prices for industrial users ran at roughly half those for European competitors, and American households and businesses benefited from the United States’ vast energy resources.—
Brian Deese,
Foreign Affairs,
9 Sep. 2025
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The attackers were then able to expand their hold by attacking Ascension’s Active Directory and abusing its privileged access to push malware to thousands of other machines inside the network.—
Dan Goodin,
ArsTechnica,
10 Sep. 2025
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Owning even a small stake in a team means joining a privileged circle of insiders.—
Melissa Houston,
Forbes.com,
10 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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My life is incredibly blessed with a loving wife, amazing kids and grandkids.—
Pete Grathoff,
Kansas City Star,
11 Sep. 2025
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Egyptian geese, on the other hand, often represented blessed souls in ancient iconography.—
Andrea Margolis,
FOXNews.com,
7 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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Poorer school districts could also struggle to access the latest AI technology, widening the gap with areas that are better-off, Robin Lake, director of Arizona State University’s Center on Reinventing Public Education, told CNN.—
Nic F. Anderson,
CNN Money,
26 Aug. 2025
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In the 1870s, workers and domestic servants were still living close to their employers in back alleys and compounds behind the homes of the better-off.—
Matthew Wills,
JSTOR Daily,
5 May 2025
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“Advantaged.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/advantaged. Accessed 16 Sep. 2025.
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