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[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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All-stock deals let companies use their soaring shares to their advantage.

From MarketWatch ● Nov. 2, 2026

It was in a vacant industrial building out in the country where cars parked the grass, kids played in a bounce castle, and their parents watched while taking advantage of a well-stocked open bar.

From Slate ● Nov. 2, 2026

Even when Mercedes' early season advantage was wiped out by their rivals, Antonelli was always there, always a factor.

From BBC ● Nov. 2, 2026

In the early scenes of the book his sparseness works to Mr. Murakami’s advantage.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 1, 2026

Surprisingly, after only eleven moves, he’d almost magically built a positional advantage.

From "Endgame" by Frank Brady

Covering parts of the body and wearing sunscreen also has an impact - despite their protective advantages.

From BBC ● Oct. 30, 2026

The tech giant is no longer loved by investors, despite its many advantages.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 29, 2026

I would have thought that one of the advantages of being super rich is that you no longer have to let money dictate your choices.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 22, 2026

"The study combines the advantages of in vivo and in vitro methods," says Michael Heide, head of the Junior Research Group Brain Development and Evolution.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 22, 2026

That outcome, with all of its momentous advantages for Eurasian societies, stemmed from three basic facts of mammalian geography, history, and biology.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond

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

From BBC ● Sep. 8, 2026

“Our operations team demonstrated why they are the best in the business, putting us in an advantaged position to bring forward material value on our differentiated asset base.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 3, 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

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

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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