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advantage

[ad-van-tij, -vahn-] / ædˈvæn tɪdʒ, -ˈvɑn- /


Usage

What are other ways to say advantage? Advantage refers to anything that places one in an improved position, especially in coping with competition or difficulties: It is to one's advantage to have traveled widely. Benefit refers to anything that promotes the welfare or improves the state of a person or group: a benefit to society. Profit refers to any valuable, useful, or helpful gain: to one’s intellectual profit.

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A big advantage for Amazon is its ability to personalize the shopping experience and leverage many years’ worth of consumer data.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 30, 2026

Porto have won all seven league games this season and already have a five-point advantage over second-placed Benfica.

From BBC ● Sep. 30, 2026

"It was really just a combination of better samples, instrumental advantage and a more concerted effort. All of those things came together," Renne added.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 30, 2026

As Mr. Hilton sees it, his advantage lies in his “high-energy campaign,” which he contrasts with Mr. Becerra’s.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 29, 2026

Madison observed the buying frenzy and complained that unscrupulous speculators “are still exploring the interior & distant parts of the Union in order to take advantage of the holders.”

From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis

Will one country gain such significant tech advantages from breakthroughs in superintelligence or quantum computing that it can overturn the economic and military balance of power—and if so, which one?

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 28, 2026

He manages more than 300 people at the district attorney’s office and spent decades in the courtroom securing high-profile convictions — advantages that he contends outweigh his lack of civil litigation experience.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 27, 2026

In his statement in court, Francisco Texeira da Mota, representing Pinto, accepted that his client was "not a hero and not a saint" but said he had brought "advantages for society".

From BBC ● Sep. 26, 2026

Our own hometown of Cuenca offers many of the same advantages.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 22, 2026

The long-term advantages of Jay’s Treaty, however, were wholly invisible to most Americans in the crucible of the moment.

From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis

Several contributors felt parents were largely responsible for finding information themselves, with one DfE study, external showing requests to defer school entry were more common among families from more advantaged backgrounds.

From BBC ● Aug. 23, 2026

Counterintuitively, Ross said, smaller independent grocers are actually advantaged in the short term, as smaller stores tend to play in more localized markets than their major chain competitors.

From Salon ● Apr. 24, 2026

Amid a rebalancing of supply and demand for liquidity in the private BDC space, listed BDCs, which benefit from permanent capital and daily liquidity, “are structurally advantaged and can emerge as net winners,” KBW wrote.

From Barron's ● Apr. 7, 2026

“Sun Belt states are experiencing markets with the most advantaged buyers, while markets in the Northeast and Midwest frequently remain advantaged toward sellers.”

From MarketWatch ● Mar. 12, 2026

We lived well, our days were mostly sunny, and I know that my parents were stoically undeceived by the objectively equivocal, contingent nature of the advantaged life they gave me and my siblings.

From "Class Matters" by The New York Times

“We urgently need a smart export-control strategy that applies robust export controls to deny our adversaries access to advanced technology, while advantaging U.S. companies,” McGuire wrote.

From MarketWatch ● Jun. 13, 2026

The administration wants to gain visibility into frontier capabilities without slowing American labs and advantaging China.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 9, 2026

Further advantaging them might hamstring the promising open-source A.I. movement—a crucial area of competition—to the point of obsolescence.

From Slate ● Nov. 14, 2023

Smith agreed, pointing out laws advantaging employers at the expense of workers when it came to organizing into early forms of unions.

From The Guardian ● Dec. 14, 2019

With the closing years of the second decade of the mill growth, most of these advantaging circumstances were fading before the increase of competition.

From The Rise of Cotton Mills in the South by Broadus Mitchell




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