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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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Frequent fliers, on the other hand, can easily take full advantage of the premium-card perks.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 29, 2026

In Tunick's case, "law enforcement seemingly took advantage of the relaxed constitutional protections at the border to try to dig up evidence" against him, his lawyers said.

From Barron's Jul. 29, 2026

Kikai's underwater location might seem like an obstacle, but it gave the research team an important advantage.

From Science Daily Jul. 29, 2026

Ellis: The biggest advantage anyone has is time.

From MarketWatch Jul. 29, 2026

Madison observed the buying frenzy and complained that unscrupulous speculators “are still exploring the interior & distant parts of the Union in order to take advantage of the holders.”

From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis

Hugh Lennox Bond said the advantages of habeas are that it is swift and cheap, and I think that is what enabled a lot of the legal success in the District of Minnesota.

From Slate Jul. 27, 2026

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

From Science Daily Jul. 27, 2026

Were she to run for the Democratic presidential nomination in 2028, Kamala Harris would enter the race with formidable advantages.

From Salon Jul. 27, 2026

Over the next five to 10 years, XPeng aims not only to become a global player, but also a company with technological advantages and a sustainable business model, He said.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 23, 2026

Only the further evidence that I’ll now present can help us answer two more questions: What advantages enabled the Bantu to displace the Pygmies and Khoisan?

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

"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

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

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

From The Wall Street Journal Dec. 9, 2025

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

But, surprisingly enough, she proved of two minds about advantaging herself of the opportunity.

From Nobody by Jacobs, W. L.




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