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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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The company’s first-mover advantage in quantum could boost its fortunes the way being a first mover in GPUs did for Nvidia, he recently told The Wall Street Journal.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 30, 2026

Instead, the stuntman said, Blake complained about how his wife was taking advantage of him.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 30, 2026

The Stevens campaign, though, is banking heavily on turning out Black voters, among whom she enjoys a significant advantage, in metro Detroit.

From Slate Jul. 30, 2026

Ellis: The biggest advantage anyone has is time.

From MarketWatch Jul. 29, 2026

It’s the kind of energy that makes me swim faster, and I plan to use it to my full advantage today.

From "Red Flags and Butterflies" by Sheryl Azzam

Multiply that across the market, and those advantages cancel out.

From MarketWatch Jul. 29, 2026

Were she to run for the Democratic presidential nomination in 2028, Kamala Harris would enter the race with formidable advantages.

From Salon Jul. 27, 2026

Grim though it sounds, grief can bring electoral advantages.

From Slate Jul. 24, 2026

Researchers suggest that such exposure could offer nutritional advantages or other benefits, including possible immune regulation.

From Science Daily Jul. 23, 2026

Make no mistake, there are advantages to an invisibility uniform.

From "I'll Give You the Sun" by Jandy Nelson

Daniel Kebede, general secretary of the National Education Union, said current tests and assessments in schools "set many students up to fail, overwhelmingly those from less advantaged backgrounds".

From BBC Jul. 14, 2026

“If that isn’t a signal to grow production in an advantaged area like the Permian Basin, then I don’t know what is,” said CEO Kaes Van’t Hof on Diamondback’s earnings call early Tuesday.

From Barron's May 5, 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

Still, the analysts continue to view Coupang as structurally advantaged in the local e-commerce market, citing limited direct competition from rivals and the high costs of customers switching to other online retailers.

From The Wall Street Journal Dec. 17, 2025

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

“Increased emphasis on these elements, we found, has the effect of advantaging the advantaged.”

From New York Times Feb. 22, 2024

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

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 Mitchell, Broadus




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