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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 shortages have roiled logistics, lifted costs and ruined the plans of many Mongolians accustomed to taking advantage of the short summer season with a road trip in the picturesque countryside.

From Barron's Sep. 8, 2026

The Chargers, meanwhile, are looking to create more of an offensive foothold in the league and take advantage of having an elite quarterback in Justin Herbert.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 7, 2026

The yen’s moves on Monday may rekindle market chatter about potential intervention, particularly as authorities have in the past taken advantage of thinned liquidity during public holidays to step in.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 7, 2026

“That kind of capability directly disrupts the operational advantage these transnational criminal organizations rely on, and it strengthens our ability to protect both Texas communities and the broader region,” he said in an email.

From Salon Sep. 6, 2026

This time he had the slight advantage of playing with the white pieces, which allowed him to employ his favorite opening strategy.

From "Endgame" by Frank Brady

North Korea called the first road bridge across its narrow border with Russia a concrete sign of tightening bonds, state media reported Tuesday, as Pyongyang gains advantages from its powerful neighbours Moscow and Beijing.

From Barron's Sep. 8, 2026

Owners can largely lock in their housing costs over decades and there are tax advantages to owning.

From MarketWatch Sep. 2, 2026

Importantly though, Zheng'an has natural advantages in its favour.

From Barron's Aug. 31, 2026

The U.S. has all the advantages it needs: allies, technology, capital and demand.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 30, 2026

This is the reason for string theory, which was created in the 1970s when physicists began to see the advantages of treating every particle as a vibrating string rather than as a dot.

From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife

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

Keefe, Bruyette & Woods views BDC issues as liquidity-driven, seeing listed BDCs as structurally advantaged and a potential buying opportunity.

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

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

“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

Three powers advantaging a Chieftain most Are Peace and Justice and an Armed Host.

From A Celtic Psaltery by Alfred Perceval Graves




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