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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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The kitchen and dining areas also take advantage of the property’s elevated position, offering views of the water.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 19, 2026

At a time when studios are in a fierce competition for consumers’ attention, Disney is trying to lean into its biggest advantage — its massive and unique fan base.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 19, 2026

A government spokesperson said it is "working to implement measures... to raise standards and drive out the minority of poor providers taking advantage of the Housing Benefit system".

From BBC ● Oct. 19, 2026

Our comparative advantage was having a family business, not having any other investors in the business, and at one point getting our children interested in it.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 18, 2026

While they were waiting for the results, Bisguier asked Bobby why he’d offered the draw to Shipman when he had a slight advantage and the outcome wasn’t certain.

From "Endgame" by Frank Brady

“The biggest advantages for drones come in wet fields, rough terrain, irregularly shaped fields and situations where timely product applications are critical,” says Bernt Nelson of the AFBF.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 19, 2026

Kay, who has DJ'd across the country and produced music over the past 30 years, said there were advantages to being on the decks during the day.

From BBC ● Oct. 18, 2026

Spectrum is looking for a new CMO and eliminating the position of chief commercial officer, saying it failed to turn its advantages into a winning strategy.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 13, 2026

Electrochemical methods may offer advantages by limiting the need to handle hazardous oxidizing agents and potentially allowing production in relatively compact equipment.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 12, 2026

We had made light of all the advantages we had been given and had treated the school with disdain, or so it seemed.

From "Bad Boy" by Walter Dean Myers

“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

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

Amid a rebalancing of supply and demand for liquidity in the private BDC space, listed BDCs, which benefit from permanent capital and daily liquidity, “are structurally advantaged and can emerge as net winners,” KBW wrote.

From Barron's ● Apr. 7, 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

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

But, surprisingly enough, she proved of two minds about advantaging herself of the opportunity.

From Nobody by W. L. Jacobs


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