HIGH GROUND Synonyms: 84 Similar and Opposite Words

high ground

noun

as in advantage

the more favorable condition or position in a competition one would have thought that having the superior product would have given the company the high ground in the video format war

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Recent Examples of high ground This is a key factor in protective planning: What structures have a line of sight to the protectee, especially if that also includes high ground, a window, or a rooftop. —

Rachel Clarke, CNN, 16 July 2024 The incumbent, once viewed as having a moral high ground, now faces calls to step aside and questions about whether his White House has concealed a diminished candidate. —

Baltimore Sun Staff, Baltimore Sun, 15 July 2024 In fact, Xi has made seizing the nationalist high ground—in order to deny it to his opponents—a hallmark of his rule. —

Christopher K. Johnson, Foreign Affairs, 20 June 2019 Meanwhile, as Democratic electeds moved to the political high ground, the 45th president was having little of that. —

Lloyd Green, New York Daily News, 15 Apr. 2024 See all Example Sentences for high ground

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But that is becoming its strength: the G-20 has a comparative advantage in conferring legitimacy to collective action in an era when many global South states feel that the G-7 is no longer fit for purpose and efforts to reform the UN Security Council’s membership have hit a brick wall.

Leslie Vinjamuri, Foreign Affairs, 15 Nov. 2024
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Anya Jaremko-Greenwold, The Week US, theweek, 15 Nov. 2024