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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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You just need to search the benefits and go through them one by one to make sure you’re taking advantage.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 30, 2026

Championship leader Kimi Antonelli finished fifth in Baku, meaning his advantage over team-mate Russell has narrowed to 66 points.

From BBC ● Sep. 29, 2026

The approach takes advantage of the chemistry that helps tissues maintain their shape.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 29, 2026

The advantage of renting out the home is that you clear a profit, and have the option of moving back into a future-proofed home.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 29, 2026

In October 1917 the radical Bolshevik Party took advantage of people’s anger over World War I and overthrew the Provisional Government.

From "A Thousand Sisters" by Elizabeth Wein

Will one country gain such significant tech advantages from breakthroughs in superintelligence or quantum computing that it can overturn the economic and military balance of power—and if so, which one?

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 28, 2026

He manages more than 300 people at the district attorney’s office and spent decades in the courtroom securing high-profile convictions — advantages that he contends outweigh his lack of civil litigation experience.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 27, 2026

In his statement in court, Francisco Texeira da Mota, representing Pinto, accepted that his client was "not a hero and not a saint" but said he had brought "advantages for society".

From BBC ● Sep. 26, 2026

Our own hometown of Cuenca offers many of the same advantages.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 22, 2026

But we are still left with the fundamental question why all those immediate advantages came to lie more with Europe than with the New World.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond

“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

"The market environment was clearly supportive. But market conditions alone do not explain results," said the company, which also touted "reliable operations, optimization in advantaged assets and high-value products across our businesses."

From Barron's ● Jul. 31, 2026

"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

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

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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