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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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Home has certainly been an advantage for the Dodgers, who drew a sellout crowd of 53,027 Thursday, pushing the team’s total home attendance over 4 million for the second straight year.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 25, 2026

“I do. I do, I do. I think she deserves the chance to do it. And I hope she takes advantage of that chance and does it.”

From Slate ● Sep. 25, 2026

My husband thinks I’ve been taken advantage of, though he wouldn’t put it that bluntly.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 24, 2026

All vie to exhibit a more-protective-than-thou attitude about their sons, who are certainly talented, certainly have every advantage and certainly aren’t all going to make their way to Major League Baseball.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 24, 2026

“The Germans let us alone in the Great War. It’s to their advantage to keep us neutral.”

From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom

Our own hometown of Cuenca offers many of the same advantages.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 22, 2026

Postdoc Kunyang Sui, who developed the mAxialtrode concept together with Associate Professor Christos Markos, says one of the main advantages is that several capabilities can be combined within a single implant.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 21, 2026

Both sides seek the military and economic advantages AI can bring, but both also worry about the job losses, economic turmoil and potential catastrophes the new technology could unleash.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 21, 2026

If objectivity is the initiative, then both viewpoints must have their advantages and follies fully rendered.

From Salon ● Sep. 19, 2026

So far, Father seemed to be reaping no special advantages.

From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver

“This suggests a new phenomenon, with the biggest factor in the overall drop in scores being advantaged students who are performing below what one would expect given their background,” said Schleicher.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 8, 2026

Several contributors felt parents were largely responsible for finding information themselves, with one DfE study, external showing requests to defer school entry were more common among families from more advantaged backgrounds.

From BBC ● Aug. 23, 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

Amid a rebalancing of supply and demand for liquidity in the private BDC space, listed BDCs, which benefit from permanent capital and daily liquidity, “are structurally advantaged and can emerge as net winners,” KBW wrote.

From Barron's ● Apr. 7, 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

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

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

Smith agreed, pointing out laws advantaging employers at the expense of workers when it came to organizing into early forms of unions.

From The Guardian ● Dec. 14, 2019

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 Broadus Mitchell




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