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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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"We have a big advantage over other teams because this atmosphere we can create is special," said Iraola.

From BBC ● Nov. 1, 2026

Spacer-seq takes advantage of this natural machinery to help researchers investigate what happens inside cells.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 31, 2026

Both companies boosted fuel production near their utmost limits to take advantage of soaring diesel prices, while exporting record amounts of fuel.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 30, 2026

“There was no reason for them to have complete oversight of what he was doing, and he took advantage of it.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 30, 2026

“The Germans let us alone in the Great War. It’s to their advantage to keep us neutral.”

From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom

Hunting down the shadow fleet offers Ukraine a number of strategic advantages in its fight against the Russian invasion.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 31, 2026

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

From BBC ● Oct. 30, 2026

While specialty tires and higher registration fees can eat into your savings, lower routine maintenance costs is one of the financial advantages of owning a used EV.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 27, 2026

These advantages could make hydrodissection an attractive option for people seeking relief without undergoing surgery or receiving repeated steroid injections.

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 size of the gap between the educational outcomes of children from more and less advantaged backgrounds is a scourge on our society," Julie McCulloch, chief executive of the EPI said.

From BBC ● Jul. 14, 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

“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

Waste Management is the most strategically advantaged company in North American waste disposal.

From Barron's ● Jan. 16, 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

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 Neil Munro


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