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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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In California, an incredibly tight housing market and high rents are fueling a new generation of real estate scams that take advantage of people desperate to find an affordable place to live.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 31, 2026

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

"I would be surprised if any one candidate emerges with a decisive numerical advantage."

From Barron's Jul. 30, 2026

England built an early lead before Australia crept their way back to have the advantage shortly after halfway.

From BBC Jul. 30, 2026

Besides keeping people farther away from harm, a big advantage of this is the ability to monitor a greater number of places.

From "Mountain of Fire" by Rebecca E. F. Barone

Before the outbreak, Taco Bell had found its stride — and analysts say its operational advantages could carry it through the rough patch.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 31, 2026

There are advantages to taking Social Security at 70.

From MarketWatch Jul. 28, 2026

They appear to have understood that elephant bone offered advantages over more widely available animal bones.

From Science Daily Jul. 27, 2026

Grim though it sounds, grief can bring electoral advantages.

From Slate Jul. 24, 2026

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

From "The Scientists" by John Gribbin

“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

LA28 chief Allison Katz-Mayfield called the random ticket-drawing process "the fairest way to ensure that the broadest number of people can get access to tickets and that no one is advantaged or disadvantaged".

From BBC Jan. 14, 2026

The Spring, Texas, company said its advantaged assets are central to its new guidance.

From The Wall Street Journal Dec. 9, 2025

Much of his remaining “Dancing with the Stars” competition is advantaged in physical strength and agility.

From Salon Nov. 4, 2025

I wanted students more aware of their differences from persons less advantaged.

From "Hunger of Memory" by Richard Rodriguez

“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

Are you not the fools to be advantaging yourselves of comforts you might be sure no fairy left for Campbells in Dalness?

From John Splendid The Tale of a Poor Gentleman, and the Little Wars of Lorn by Munro, Neil




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