as in advantages
the more favorable condition or position in a competition
a summer internship will stand you in good stead when applying to college
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Those cost advantages, Schackart said, allow Google to charge about 20% to 30% less for excess compute capacity, which is attracting AI unicorns to Google’s offerings, including its cloud business and enterprise services.
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For example, a 529 plan can offer unmatched tax advantages for education savings, while a custodial brokerage account gives greater flexibility to use funds for major milestones, like a first home or general financial support.
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Rainwater tends to gather along the road edges.
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Questlove is too thoughtful a filmmaker to sand down the rough edges.
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The physical staging, featuring a rotating cube from set designer Martha Ginsberg, shows us the classroom from different vantages, bringing the play’s shifting perspective to three-dimensional life.
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Some, like Point Imperial, which offers vistas extending almost 100 miles to the north, had been all but surrounded by fire, which had obliterated many of the ponderosas that imbued these vantages with a sense of framing, scale and color.
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“Steads.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/steads. Accessed 29 Jun. 2026.
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