to advantage
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Wolff said F1 should consider introducing a rule to prevent teams using one car to back up the field to advantage another driver, as both Racing Bulls and Williams did on Sunday.
From BBC • May 25, 2025
Emhoff has become something of an expert at using his image as a happy-to-be-here outsider to advantage.
From Washington Post • Dec. 19, 2021
Colored walls display to advantage the museum’s deep collection of Charles Willson Peale and other American painters.
From New York Times • May 30, 2021
“So if the association is paying its members for these services, it has to be receiving services of commensurate value that all go to advantage the interests of the industry.”
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 21, 2021
Only in this way can the capabilities that come with diversity—lighter, more technical rowers in the bow and stronger, heavier pullers in the middle of the boat, for instance—be turned to advantage rather than disadvantage.
From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown
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