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  • verb Present participle of advantage.

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Examples

  • Again advantaging from our text, what the race wants chiefly is the passing thing done in the eternal way.

    Phenomena of Literary Evolution 1900

  • With this kind of advantaging, local enterprises don't stand a chance, especially small ones.

    Reviewing James Petras and Henry Veltmeyer's "Multinationals on Trial" 2007

  • ** McIntosh concludes that “since race and sex are not the only advantaging systems at work, we need to similarly examine the daily experience of having age advantage, or ethnic advantage, or physical ability, or advantage related to nationality, religion, or sexual orientation.”

    Archive 2010-05-01 2010

  • Forty-nine studies compared the quality of care provided by generalists vs. specialists, but were limited by their focus on single discrete medical conditions, thereby advantaging specialists over generalists.

    John Geyman: Myths and Misperceptions About Primary Care John Geyman 2011

  • Among its conclusions: given the gerrymandered districts used for the last decade, "it seems unlikely that it is possible to draw any plan that increases competition among congressional seats without also advantaging the Democrats."

    Phil Trounstine: Why the ProPublica Remap Yarn Is Nonsense Phil Trounstine 2011

  • ** McIntosh concludes that “since race and sex are not the only advantaging systems at work, we need to similarly examine the daily experience of having age advantage, or ethnic advantage, or physical ability, or advantage related to nationality, religion, or sexual orientation.”

    Special Guest Post: Zetta Elliott on the Myth of Meritocracy 2010

  • Forty-nine studies compared the quality of care provided by generalists vs. specialists, but were limited by their focus on single discrete medical conditions, thereby advantaging specialists over generalists.

    John Geyman: Myths and Misperceptions About Primary Care John Geyman 2011

  • She could not help the lines upon which she had been builded, and they were very good; but she had long since learned those lines, and though little they needed, was not above advantaging them to the best of her ability.

    Jack London Play:The Scorn of Women 2010

  • She could not help the lines upon which she had been builded, and they were very good; but she had long since learned those lines, and though little they needed, was not above advantaging them to the best of her ability.

    THE SCORN OF WOMEN 2010

  • Most importantly, the transition to the culture of the new class has, in complex ways, taken part in the revolution of the new technologies, with the new class at first benefiting from them, thanks to their advantaging the educated and wealthy — that social inequality known as the “digital divide.”

    The Volokh Conspiracy » Telos Returns to ‘New Class’ Analysis and the Critique of the ‘Wholly-Administered Society” 2010

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