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verb

past tense of advantage
as in benefited
to provide with something useful or desirable there's no question that that bicycle racer was significantly advantaged by a great set of genes

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Recent Examples of advantaged
Adjective
The program allows parents to open tax-advantaged investment accounts for children under 18, with kids born between 2025 and 2028 getting seed funding of $1,000 from the government. Kif Leswing, CNBC, 27 Jan. 2026 Second, the bill strengthens CHOICE arrangements, which incentivize employers to contribute tax-advantaged dollars toward health coverage chosen by their employees. Jay Obernolte, Oc Register, 24 Dec. 2025
Verb
Trump has probably advantaged China in the long run in hard and soft power. Evelyn Cheng, CNBC, 28 Jan. 2026 However, Sportico’s reporting triggered swift backlash among Beavers fans, who took to social media, fan-site message boards and sports talk radio to condemn what many viewed as a lopsided arrangement that advantaged the company at the expense of the Oregon State and its athletes. Daniel Libit, Sportico.com, 4 Dec. 2025 See All Example Sentences for advantaged
Recent Examples of Synonyms for advantaged
Adjective
  • Endowed not only with a privileged birthright but—unlike the actual princes over in England, who had weak chins and went bald young—the physical stature to match?
    Jeffrey Eugenides, New Yorker, 4 Apr. 2026
  • Ochoa’s snide speech about his privileged private school becomes a wrenching aria of desolation and need.
    Steven Winn, San Francisco Chronicle, 3 Apr. 2026
Verb
  • The central allegation in the Dallas County case is that Morris and Gateway Church benefitted financially from concealing the abuse of Clemishire, and that the church deliberately issued false statements about the circumstances after Clemishire came forward with the allegations.
    Lillie Davidson, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 2 Apr. 2026
  • In the ’90s and 2000s, under Senegalese presidents Abdou Diouf and Abdoulaye Wade, who extended Leopold Senghor’s vision of art as statecraft, Dak’Art benefited from government backing not just as a matter of policy but because these presidents understood that culture mattered.
    Smooth Nzewi, Artforum, 2 Apr. 2026
Adjective
  • April is a blessed month for genre fans, because as well as Thrash, Netflix is gifting us with another potentially-awesome-but-likely-terrible film with the survival thriller Apex, which premieres on April 24.
    Abid Rahman, HollywoodReporter, 1 Apr. 2026
  • Local churches will observe Palm Sunday with blessed palm branches, often woven into crosses, symbolizing peace, victory and eternal life, according to the Catholic Archdiocese of Miami.
    Jenna Prestininzi, Freep.com, 23 Mar. 2026
Adjective
  • Lower earners historically see higher rates of inflation than their better-off counterparts, said Morgan Stanley economist Heather Berger.
    Alex Harring, CNBC, 18 Feb. 2026
  • Washington, Lincoln, and Jefferson housing projects were built and black folks settled in, dreaming of moving in with their better-off cousins who lived near Lenox Avenue.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 29 Jan. 2026

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“Advantaged.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/advantaged. Accessed 6 Apr. 2026.

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