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well-placed

British  

adjective

  1. having an advantageous position

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The FBI has not accused Carvalho of wrongdoing, but well-placed sources told The Times that Carvalho is a target of an investigation into AllHere, a defunct company that designed an all-purpose chatbot for the nation’s second-largest school system.

From Los Angeles Times

CEO Jay Chaudhry said all the right things—that Zscaler is the “cybersecurity platform for the AI age,” and that its Zero Trust platform was well-placed to capture the “unprecedented speed and scale of AI and agentic workflows.”

From Barron's

CEO Jay Chaudhry said all the right things—that Zscaler is the “cybersecurity platform for the AI age,” and that its Zero Trust platform was well-placed to capture the “unprecedented speed and scale of AI and agentic workflows.”

From Barron's

He knows his team are well-placed to seal their Champions League return.

From BBC

In Soviet days, Mr. Mian is told by a well-placed 35-year-old he meets, “Russians had very strict ideas about good and evil,” but in the 1990s, unfortunately, “everyone started to decide for themselves, à la carte,” what was right and wrong.

From The Wall Street Journal