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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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How opponents deal with St. Francis’ size advantage will be one of the most intriguing storylines for the 2026-27 high school basketball season.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 11, 2026

“It’s to the Met’s advantage to preserve the Neue,” he says.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 10, 2026

While that has given the company an advantage by cutting through layers of managers, it “comes at the cost of him being involved in every major decision within the company,” Goldberg said.

From MarketWatch ● Nov. 10, 2026

In particular there was unhappiness about how Tuchel told them to approach the closing stages of the game after Anthony Gordon had given them a 55th-minute advantage.

From BBC ● Nov. 9, 2026

She was taking advantage of Charlotte’s one great weakness.

From "City Spies" by James Ponti

Buying a major U.S. wireless company would come with clear advantages, such as access to decades’ worth of infrastructure and relationships.

From MarketWatch ● Nov. 6, 2026

The ultimate challenge will be establishing whether its apparent advantages in animals translate into meaningful benefits for patients.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 4, 2026

Here, cousins Salter and Paspaley, both based in Sydney, discuss the idea that changed their grandfather’s life, the advantages of being a family business and their risky overseas ambitions.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 3, 2026

Redick praised Grimes’ ability to keep advantages by driving decisively.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 3, 2026

When we consider the advantages that Spaniards derived from horses, steel weapons, and armor against foot soldiers without metal, it should no longer surprise us that Spaniards consistently won battles against enormous odds.

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

The new data also found that pupils from more advantaged socio-economic backgrounds continued to perform better on average.

From BBC ● Sep. 8, 2026

“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

“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

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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