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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.

Example Sentences

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While Intel would prefer PC demand to be just as strong, the company may be able to take advantage of weakness in that category.

From Barron's • Apr. 16, 2026

Meanwhile, Chinese fabricators have also stepped up purchases to take advantage of the recent low prices, ANZ notes, adding that this has led to a drop in copper inventories in China.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 16, 2026

He also was drawn to another figure — an increase in the number of families taking advantage of transitional kindergarten, which became fully available across the state to 4-year-olds for the current school year.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 16, 2026

Wedbush’s Reese noted that Netflix’s industry-low churn rate — the rate at which people cancel subscriptions — gives it a strong advantage among advertisers.

From MarketWatch • Apr. 15, 2026

Of course she had no idea if ostriches cared about that sort of thing; perhaps there was some advantage to having a skull full of eyeballs instead of brains.

From "The Unseen Guest" by Maryrose Wood




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