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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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Another major advantage is that the AI system works with ordinary EKG images, which are already routinely collected in hospitals and medical centers around the world.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 15, 2026

She thinks some are good value but, for her, the advantage is being able to try on a small scale without forking out for a full-size product.

From BBC ● Nov. 15, 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

Other firms, including fund manager Capital Group, have taken advantage of the depressed office market by buying buildings to lease to tenants.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 14, 2026

Taking advantage of this, Penkovsky sneaked in a tiny Minox camera, a favorite device of fictional spies.

From "Fallout: Spies, Superbombs, and the Ultimate Cold War Showdown" by Steve Sheinkin

The U.S. still retains many advantages, including a constellation of top universities, the most Nobel laureates by a large margin and deeper capital markets for those who want to turn their ideas into companies.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 15, 2026

Whether those advantages can outweigh the challenges of running computers at sea is an open question.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 14, 2026

"One of Lumina's major advantages is its sheer size," Shen says.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 12, 2026

Buying a major U.S. wireless company would come with clear advantages, such as access to decades’ worth of infrastructure and relationships.

From MarketWatch ● Nov. 6, 2026

Kepler had none of the advantages of birth which had given Tycho a head start in life.

From "The Scientists" by John Gribbin

The new data also found that pupils from more advantaged socio-economic backgrounds continued to perform better on average.

From BBC ● Sep. 8, 2026

“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

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

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

It is self-love: worshipping thyself, comforting thyself, advantaging thyself, and regarding all others as either toys or slaves for that great idol, thyself.

From In Convent Walls The Story of the Despensers by M. (Madelaine) Irwin


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