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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

New research suggests that their preference for warm environments may have given them a crucial advantage during one of Earth's greatest mass extinctions.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 30, 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 Soviets spared no energy in maneuvering for every advantage they could.

From "Endgame" by Frank Brady

"Now that picture might change, but as I can see it now in October 2026, that's where we are, there are more disadvantages than advantages."

From BBC ● Oct. 30, 2026

One new area where Google has yet to assert its advantages, however, is in consumer AI agents.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 29, 2026

Investors have debated the advantages of optical technology over traditional copper.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 28, 2026

However, the same immune-suppressing properties that create potential risks for patients could also offer advantages in certain research settings.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 27, 2026

“Both sides saw the obvious advantages to joining together. But beyond our alliance, individual bats and humans may form their own union. That is called bonding.”

From "Gregor the Overlander" by Suzanne Collins

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

Canada is geographically advantaged to sell to Asia.

From Barron's ● Mar. 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

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

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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