as in privileged
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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
Kayla Dwyer, IndyStar, 6 Dec. 2025
Make the most of tax-advantaged accounts.
—Rachel Barber, USA Today, 4 Dec. 2025
Daniel Libit, Sportico.com, 4 Dec. 2025
Aritzia is further advantaged by successfully attracting mothers and daughters shopping together.
—David Moin, Footwear News, 14 Nov. 2025
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Adjective
What the bill does The bill describes a new and significantly altered congressional map that, at the most basic level, splits up the state's most heavily urban areas and combines them with rural swaths in order to create nine Republican-advantaged seats and zero Democratic-advantaged seats.
—Kayla Dwyer, IndyStar, 6 Dec. 2025
Make the most of tax-advantaged accounts.
—Rachel Barber, USA Today, 4 Dec. 2025
Verb
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
Aritzia is further advantaged by successfully attracting mothers and daughters shopping together.
—David Moin, Footwear News, 14 Nov. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for advantaged
Adjective
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Their $80 million mega-mansion on North Bay Road in Miami Beach has nine bedrooms and nine bathrooms, and those privileged views of Biscayne Bay.—
Sarah Moreno
February 11,
Miami Herald,
11 Feb. 2026
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Villainous weirdos like Bronze Age Pervert, Curtis Yarvin, or Jack Donovan who populate the ranks of far-right intellectuals are obsessed with their own fabulism about antiquity, reminding one of the murderous gaggle of privileged college kids in Donna Tart’s 1993 campus novel The Secret History.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
10 Feb. 2026
Verb
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The portal has benefited college athletes in many ways, granting them the freedom to secure better opportunities for playing time and name, image and likeness deals.—
Ken Sugiura,
AJC.com,
11 Feb. 2026
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His teammates benefited from it.—
C.J. Holmes,
New York Daily News,
11 Feb. 2026
Adjective
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British talk show host Graham Norton, who has had Swift as a guest on his program, claimed to have garnered an invite to the blessed event.—
Pete Grathoff,
Kansas City Star,
29 Jan. 2026
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Ayatollah Khamenei personally ‘blessed’ Nouri al-Maliki’s nomination.—
Benjamin Weinthal,
FOXNews.com,
29 Jan. 2026
Adjective
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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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When New York boldly expanded free preschool a decade ago, classroom quality climbed mostly in better-off neighborhoods, failing to lift poor children.—
Bruce Fuller,
Oc Register,
27 Dec. 2025
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“Advantaged.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/advantaged. Accessed 14 Feb. 2026.
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