advantageously

adverb

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as in finely

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Recent Examples of advantageously In addition to eliminating the predrying step required by other processes, the KIGAM process uses moisture advantageously, turning it into a steam-activation agent that accelerates reactions and improves product quality. — New Atlas, 1 July 2026 Although 2010’s unevenly awesome Hellbilly Deluxe 2 was advantageously billed as a follow-up to his debut, The Great Satan actually sounds like a spiritual successor. — Eli Enis, Pitchfork, 27 Feb. 2026 The upshot is that the trend of AI for mental health can be perceived differently, advantageously so, when recast as a matter of AI for mental wealth. — Lance Eliot, Forbes.com, 5 Jan. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for advantageously
  1. finely
  2. helpfully
  3. magnificently
  4. favorably
  5. agreeably
  6. happily
  7. pleasantly
  8. grandly
Adverb
  • Ten years from now, the designation process should be even more finely tuned.
    — Marie Sapirie, Forbes.com, 10 Aug. 2026
  • The best type of tea to re-steep is anything that starts very potent, or features tea leaves that are on the larger, coarser side, rather than finely ground.
    — Karla Walsh, Better Homes & Gardens, 4 Aug. 2026
Definition of finely
Adverb
  • This view helpfully shows key numbers (such as resolved requests, involvement rate, resolution rate) at the top, along with a funnel that visualizes visualizing how requests are resolved (with AI or humans).
    — Dianna Gunn, PC Magazine, 11 Aug. 2026
  • Freud once helpfully distinguished that healthy thing, mourning, from melancholia—the mourning that never ends, grief that is unable to let the lost object go.
    — Nikhil Krishnan, New Yorker, 20 July 2026
Definition of helpfully
Adverb
  • On my itinerary, for example, there were five shows in five venues, each more magnificently appointed than the last.
    — Chris Jones, Chicago Tribune, 20 July 2026
  • New Zealand responded magnificently with a try in the eighth minute by Jordan.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 4 July 2026
Definition of magnificently
Adverb
  • Americans view the National Park Service favorably The park service is popular with Americans.
    — Matthew Daly, Chicago Tribune, 13 Aug. 2026
  • Forty-nine percent of likely voters view Becerra favorably, compared with 43% who view him unfavorably.
    — Barnini Chakraborty, The Washington Examiner, 13 Aug. 2026
Definition of favorably
Adverb
  • Settling the score, meanwhile, is Randy Newman, whose fourth Pixar collaboration ambles along agreeably, accompanied by drivin’ tunes performed by Rascal Flatts, Sheryl Crow and Brad Paisley that are perfect for coasting along those alternate routes.
    — Michael Rechtshaffen, HollywoodReporter, 9 June 2026
  • To that end, the writer-director, Chandler Levack, establishes an agreeably slapdash attitude of hedonistic adventure, one that’s often intentionally borderline cringe.
    — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 12 Apr. 2026
Definition of agreeably
Adverb
  • That’s a common sentiment from a touring superstar, but there’s a sense that Kahan really might be as happily bewildered as the rest of us about how songs this personal and cloudy came to captivate even sunny California.
    — Chris Willman, Variety, 17 Aug. 2026
  • Vocca returned to the workforce and is happily building her own dietetics practice focused on midlife women.
    — Helen Carefoot, Flow Space, 13 Aug. 2026
Definition of happily
Adverb
  • The result will pleasantly scratch the type of brain this movie was made to reach.
    — Alison Foreman, IndieWire, 12 Aug. 2026
  • Some were only there for the restaurant River House, like David and Susan Merts, who were pleasantly surprised by the event after dinner and plan on bringing friends to the next one.
    — Sophie Lindberg, Kansas City Star, 7 Aug. 2026
Definition of pleasantly
Adverb
  • What’s unusual is to see these elements presented so grandly on a stage as big as The Bushnell’s and presented in a manner that doesn’t compromise a dark tale of anger, revenge, dangerous romance, desperation and survival.
    — Christopher Arnott, Hartford Courant, 4 June 2026
  • For a drink and a snack with a view, head up to Süreyya, named after one of the stars in the Seven Sisters constellation, and raise a glass of top-tier Turkish wine to the Haghia Sophia looming grandly behind you.
    — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 2 June 2026
Definition of grandly

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