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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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“Hardware is hard,” says the old Silicon Valley adage, and in the age of AI, that might be Apple’s biggest advantage.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 26, 2026

Even if the test isn’t flawless, such development will remain critical to SpaceX’s efforts to build on its cost advantage, which threatens to disrupt everything from telecom to AI.

From Barron's • Apr. 26, 2026

The Kings, who had a power-play goal in each of the first three games of the series, were shut out with the man advantage twice in the first 12 minutes of Game 4.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 26, 2026

Allen, 40, led 5-0 but then trailed 6-5, before moving into a 9-7 advantage by the end of Friday's middle session.

From BBC • Apr. 25, 2026

Her pony-scented pigtails had been replaced to great advantage with Simon’s own unruly shock of hair, which tumbled quite naturally over her—his—intelligent forehead.

From "The Long-Lost Home" by Maryrose Wood




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