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Chris -- 2018-04-11
Writers commonly use ‘advantage point’ to describe a particularly favored or advantaged vantage. Common. Examples:
Share our dream and excitement of being able to see the world from the advantage point of a bird!
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The fluke fishing in CT begins and ends for all practical purposes from the advantage point of where you fish.
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From the advantage point of a private balcony, enjoy the surrounding landscape with a glimpse of a winding pathway that leads to a hillside oasis …
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Thus, you’ll be able to see what the experience is like from the advantage point of the person who will be asking you questions.
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Things might have looked differently in 1960, but from the advantage point of a new century, a reexamination of the facts is in order.
stevenwarran.blogspot.com/.../i-saw-eichmann-murder.html
Enjoy the relaxing sounds and spectacular view of a rolling river from the advantage point of a raised deck.…
www.trulia.com/WI/Park_Falls/
The researcher entered the research process from the advantage point of her own personal and professional bias and knowledge.
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From the advantage point of a successful company, it is easy to look back and dismiss the agony of indecision, the nail-biting and sleepless nights. ...
www.villagenews2010.org.uk/vn2010aprilmarch.pdf
We start from the advantage point of being a first world country and we are slowly but surely loosing this advantage….
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There’s a directionality about the idea of a vantage point that fits in well with the meaning of ad- ‘towards’. A vantage point is one from which you can admire the particular view; I have wondered if advantage point involved a blend with that word. (Pretty hard to prove or to deny.)
*If the human mind were simple enough for us to understand,
we would be too simple-minded to understand it* .
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