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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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One major advantage of these observations is their remarkable consistency.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 15, 2026

Said Bass: “We have to take advantage of the Games coming to fast-track a lot of things that we have needed to do in the city for a very, very long time.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 15, 2026

New Zealand might regret failing to take advantage of France's victory against South Africa on Friday night but they still leapfrog the Springboks to top the southern section with one weekend of regular matches remaining.

From BBC ● Nov. 14, 2026

I don’t know if she’s being taken advantage of, but it leaves a sour taste in my mouth.

From MarketWatch ● Nov. 14, 2026

He always took advantage of the master’s divisive culture to be anything but a team player.

From "Flying Through Water" by Mamle Wolo

And the strategic advantages of owning those stores have diminished.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 13, 2026

“We have the assets and competitive advantages to succeed and are moving with urgency to deliver more value for our customers and stronger results for our investors,” Winfrey said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 6, 2026

These advantages could make it easier to develop a widely accessible treatment if future clinical trials confirm that sulforaphane is effective against Friedreich ataxia.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 6, 2026

Potentially greater gas-turbine availability remains the bigger longer-term risk to Bloom’s advantages, they said.

From MarketWatch ● Nov. 5, 2026

I knew my kids were growing up with more advantages and more abundance than most families could ever begin to imagine having.

From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama

“This suggests a new phenomenon, with the biggest factor in the overall drop in scores being advantaged students who are performing below what one would expect given their background,” said Schleicher.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 8, 2026

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

“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

I wanted students more aware of their differences from persons less advantaged.

From "Hunger of Memory" by Richard Rodriguez

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

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 9, 2026

“Past tech revolutions have tended to bypass older workers because they haven’t necessarily built those tech skills. But we’re finding that AI is advantaging those who have expertise.”

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 26, 2025

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

But, surprisingly enough, she proved of two minds about advantaging herself of the opportunity.

From Nobody by W. L. Jacobs


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