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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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It lasted only a few seconds, but Short took advantage of the moment.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 15, 2026

Students from wealthier families may already have connections to internships, family businesses or professional networks that give them an advantage.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 15, 2026

And when interest rates are stable, banks “can use that as an advantage, as an opportunity to trickle savings rates lower,” he said.

From MarketWatch Sep. 14, 2026

That pact would build on an existing free trade agreement called CETA, which Sanchez said has unrealized potential as small and medium-sized firms are not yet taking advantage of its benefits.

From Barron's Sep. 14, 2026

Tamara and Raya had the advantage of height and the sun behind them, which would dazzle the enemy pilots if they looked in their direction.

From "A Thousand Sisters" by Elizabeth Wein

“While Medacta’s competitive advantages remain intact, sustaining its historical growth rates will become increasingly challenging as the business scales,” Deutsche Bank says.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 15, 2026

Children raised in two-parent families in which one parent is employed full time already have a host of advantages, while children raised in low-income single-parent households are more likely to face significant challenges.

From Slate Sep. 14, 2026

Tracy has the advantages that Susanville does not: It’s next to Interstate 5 along a busy commercial corridor in a populated and growing section of the state.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 13, 2026

He is still an underdog against Garcia - a fighter with greater amateur pedigree and a more accomplished professional resume - but Benn's size and physical pressure could become one of his biggest advantages.

From BBC Sep. 12, 2026

My people had been brought here against their will—without the advantages of speaking English, understanding what democracy meant, or knowing anything about how people lived here.

From "March Forward, Girl" by Melba Pattillo Beals

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

"The market environment was clearly supportive. But market conditions alone do not explain results," said the company, which also touted "reliable operations, optimization in advantaged assets and high-value products across our businesses."

From Barron's Jul. 31, 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

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

“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

Three powers advantaging a Chieftain most Are Peace and Justice and an Armed Host.

From A Celtic Psaltery by Alfred Perceval Graves




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