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• a  giving an advantage
  a contract advantageous to our country
  socially advantageous to entertain often
• s  appropriate for achieving a particular end; implies a lack of concern for fairness

• Jobs ended up licensing Microsoft's BASIC after all (on terms that turned out to be, as usual, very advantageous to Apple).
• In all of them he is taking the position most advantageous for his campaign in the fall.
• But better still is for us to take measures that will be advantageous both to China and to us.

• disadvantageous

News & Articles

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• U.S. Open leaderboard 2013: Phil Mickelson remains at 2-under
  Despite not taking advantageous of a couple prime birdie opportunities, Phil Mickelson continues to lead the 2013 U.S. Open. Mickelson has carded 10 straight pars after an opening bogey and continues to lead by one stroke at 2-under.
  June 14, 2013 - Philly.com
• Foundings Matter: Thiel's Law Applied To Biotech
  Thiel’s law: A startup messed up at its foundation cannot be fixed. Much like an organism, the “DNA” of a startup gets encoded at the outset – which genes or attributes will really matter going forward, and the possible deleterious (or advantageous) mutations that will impact the startup’s maturation down the road. Once in place, it’s very hard to change the genomic DNA of a startup.
  June 11, 2013 - Forbes

Quotes

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• Chris Redfern in International Herald Tribune
  Very confident, yet not overly so,said Ohio Democratic Party chief Chris Redfern, who said the financial turmoil is dreadful for the country but "politically it's advantageous" for Obama.
• Mike Beebe in Fort Smith Times Record
  In his weekly radio address Friday, Beebe said "conservative budgeting and cautious spending have put Arkansas in an advantageous position."
• Gerardo Martino in Earthtimes
  One mustn't be too hard on our strikers. If they aren't scoring well, maybe it's because the balls aren't arriving fast enough to them,he said. "To score goals, you need to receive the ball in advantageous positions. I wouldn't like to be...