How to Use advantaged in a Sentence

advantaged

adjective
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  • He comes from an advantaged community.
  • But the people who will be hardest hit by this policy are students from less advantaged backgrounds who stand to gain the most from going to university.
    — Nick Morrison, Forbes, 17 July 2023
  • If the stock is in a tax-advantaged account, read up on the tax rules first.
    — Dallas News, 17 July 2022
  • The Baseball Haves were not so advantaged over the Have-Nots.
    — Jason Gay, WSJ, 29 Aug. 2018
  • The Jynx may have been submerged in the advantaged preppy scene, but the group was not afraid to hit the town, either.
    — Gary Graff, Billboard, 5 May 2017
  • What does the tax plan do to a school system where the better-off are already so much more advantaged?
    — Ginia Bellafante, New York Times, 22 Dec. 2017
  • The chief talked of the officer as having a forte of working with homeless and less advantaged.
    — Karen Zurawski, Houston Chronicle, 12 Dec. 2019
  • Very often the least advantaged among us were the most generous.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 27 Dec. 2021
  • For those taking active steps, like saving in a tax-advantaged 529 plan, the road to college is a lot less bumpy.
    — Beth Pinsker, The Christian Science Monitor, 18 July 2017
  • There are tax-advantaged 529 accounts that must be opened and managed.
    — David Dayen, New Republic, 17 Jan. 2018
  • But less advantaged groups often felt left out of the partnership.
    — Daniel Golden, ProPublica, 14 Oct. 2023
  • The brand’s goal is to make ethically sound clothes by helping less advantaged women around the world.
    — Claire Coghlan, Variety, 23 Mar. 2022
  • Within 15 minutes of play, the researchers observed changes in the how the advantaged player behaved.
    — Eoin O'Carroll, The Christian Science Monitor, 31 Oct. 2017
  • Since then, the series, to its credit, has told more and more stories about other less-advantaged inmates.
    — Rob Lowman, Orange County Register, 9 June 2017
  • There are lots of ways to use various tax-advantaged accounts.
    — Erik Carter, Forbes, 15 Aug. 2022
  • While the Campus Club continued to serve the more advantaged students through the school year that ended in May 1946, something happened.
    — Paula Allen, ExpressNews.com, 19 Oct. 2019
  • His concern is that the House version dropped a niche provision that would allow tax-advantaged 529 Plans to pay for home schooling.
    — Philip Demuth, WSJ, 9 July 2019
  • Then, pay off credit card debt, keep 4-6 months in savings, and invest the rest for retirement in tax-advantaged accounts.
    — OrlandoSentinel.com, 3 May 2018
  • The bill makes tax-advantaged 529 college savings accounts available to the unborn.
    — Jennifer Hansler, CNN, 3 Nov. 2017
  • This is a troubling plot point: only the the richest, most advantaged segments of society have the freedom to leave behind a broken world and start anew.
    — Andrew Liptak, The Verge, 3 Apr. 2018
  • The propane is less cost advantaged, but Patel said there's a growing domestic demand for polypropylene as a plastic and fabric in the years ahead.
    — Jordan Blum, Houston Chronicle, 25 Oct. 2017
  • Could it, in some measurable way, prepare the nation’s less advantaged children for school?
    — Hank Stuever, Washington Post, 2 Dec. 2019
  • Half the boys had been raised in very disadvantaged environments, while the other half were raised in advantaged homes.
    — Carl Engelking, Discover Magazine, 7 Apr. 2014
  • One way to assist is by contributing to a tax-advantaged 529 college-savings plan.
    — Michelle Singletary, BostonGlobe.com, 25 May 2018
  • Some of the site sits in a tax-advantaged enterprise zone, which means the city would temporarily lose out on property tax income.
    — Anna Marum, OregonLive.com, 4 Nov. 2017
  • That meant maintaining large and some very large class sizes at schools serving students from advantaged backgrounds.
    — oregonlive, 28 May 2021
  • Within about six hours, all those years of American heartbreak at the expense of our snow-advantaged northern neighbors were erased.
    — Matt Bonesteel, Anchorage Daily News, 23 Feb. 2018
  • One great way to lower your tax bill while preparing for the future is to contribute the maximum to your tax-advantaged accounts.
    — Q.ai - Powering A Personal Wealth Movement, Forbes, 19 Dec. 2022
  • Thiel wouldn’t owe any tax up front and no early withdrawal penalties would apply, but he’d be required to move billions out of the tax-advantaged account.
    — Justin Elliott, ProPublica, 21 Sep. 2021
  • In some instances, the differences between the most affluent communities and the least advantaged were four times as great.
    — Ginia Bellafante, New York Times, 30 Oct. 2020

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