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
Companies would not be permitted to handle intimate data to advantage themselves and to disadvantage us.
From Slate • Jun. 27, 2022
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
Sometimes he made business errors, but even these he turned to advantage in good will if in no other way.
From "Cannery Row" by John Steinbeck
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