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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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Andy Pages hit a looping ball to right-center to score Freeman, and the Dodgers built a 5-3 advantage.

From Los Angeles Times • May 26, 2026

Companies like IBM, Salesforce and MetLife say they are also ramping up hires of freshly minted grads to take advantage of their AI-native skills.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 26, 2026

Back-to-back double faults from Boulter put Urhobo on the front foot early in the second, and although Boulter levelled the scores mid-set, the Florida-born player restored her advantage immediately and forced the decider.

From BBC • May 25, 2026

Rubio said he was taking advantage of a one-day break in his schedule before a meeting in New Delhi on Tuesday of the Quad -- Australia, India, Japan and the United States.

From Barron's • May 25, 2026

In October 1917 the radical Bolshevik Party took advantage of people’s anger over World War I and overthrew the Provisional Government.

From "A Thousand Sisters" by Elizabeth Wein




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