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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 economy may have already zoomed past the skill, or bad actors could be trying to take advantage of the moment.

From MarketWatch Jul. 31, 2026

Kuwaki, who finished Thursday two shots behind leader Jeeno Thitikul, carded a one-under-par round to take advantage of Thitikul's dropped shots.

From BBC Jul. 31, 2026

“It’s really the worst environment that I think anyone in the field has ever seen for taking advantage of people,” said Daniel Sharp, the chief of the Los Angeles County Office of Immigrant Affairs.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 31, 2026

The Space Force’s small size is proving an advantage.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 30, 2026

Good soldier, I thought, taking advantage of the element of surprise.

From "Liar, Liar" by Gary Paulsen

Some of Taco Bell’s advantages come from its choice of cuisine.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 31, 2026

They appear to have understood that elephant bone offered advantages over more widely available animal bones.

From Science Daily Jul. 27, 2026

But there’s a lot to be said about emotional security, a lower tax bill, shared expenses and healthcare insurance, among other advantages that married couples avail of.

From MarketWatch Jul. 24, 2026

Grim though it sounds, grief can bring electoral advantages.

From Slate Jul. 24, 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

Daniel Kebede, general secretary of the National Education Union, said current tests and assessments in schools "set many students up to fail, overwhelmingly those from less advantaged backgrounds".

From BBC Jul. 14, 2026

“If that isn’t a signal to grow production in an advantaged area like the Permian Basin, then I don’t know what is,” said CEO Kaes Van’t Hof on Diamondback’s earnings call early Tuesday.

From Barron's May 5, 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

The Spring, Texas, company said its advantaged assets are central to its new guidance.

From The Wall Street Journal Dec. 9, 2025

I wanted students more aware of their differences from persons less advantaged.

From "Hunger of Memory" by Richard Rodriguez

The administration wants to gain visibility into frontier capabilities without slowing American labs and advantaging China.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 9, 2026

“Past tech revolutions have tended to bypass older workers because they haven’t necessarily built those tech skills. But we’re finding that AI is advantaging those who have expertise.”

From MarketWatch Oct. 26, 2025

“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

With the closing years of the second decade of the mill growth, most of these advantaging circumstances were fading before the increase of competition.

From The Rise of Cotton Mills in the South by Mitchell, Broadus




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