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
Michelle Fox, CNBC, 2 Sep. 2025
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
Roomy Khan, Forbes.com, 11 Sep. 2025
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Tax-advantaged equity, real estate, multi-sector, covered call and preferred funds are the best performing sectors.
—Michelle Fox, CNBC, 2 Sep. 2025
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
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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The Brewers benefited from a preposterous double play in the fourth inning, when outfielder Sal Frelick bobbled a ball off the center-field wall, but managed to start a relay for a forceout at home and another at third.—
Andy McCullough,
New York Times,
14 Oct. 2025
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The offensive passing game benefited with play-action fakes.—
Charlotte Observer,
Charlotte Observer,
14 Oct. 2025
Adjective
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After all, while film and TV often like to put the spotlight on the sphere of rich, privileged Brits, there is also poverty that the world isn’t always shown.—
Georg Szalai,
HollywoodReporter,
17 Oct. 2025
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Other reasons include privileged-access abuse and employees emailing sensitive patient information to wrong recipients.—
Lauren Giella,
MSNBC Newsweek,
16 Oct. 2025
Adjective
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You're blessed, very blessed, very fortunate.—
Senior Editor,
MSNBC Newsweek,
16 Oct. 2025
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Meyers, who graciously agreed to an Evite for the blessed event, then suggested Swift send the invites in a picture frame, since people will probably frame it up anyway.—
Gil Kaufman,
Billboard,
9 Oct. 2025
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Japan was in a deep recession, but Uniqlo kept growing, offering bargains for the struggling masses and discretion for better-off consumers in an era that frowned upon conspicuous consumption.—
Lauren Collins,
New Yorker,
15 Sep. 2025
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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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“Advantaged.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/advantaged. Accessed 20 Oct. 2025.
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