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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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Poly won the East Valley League title, and coach Boo Williams is hoping his team’s speed advantage helps.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 4, 2026

Unlike conventional electronics, which processes and stores information using the electrical charge of electrons, spintronics also takes advantage of a property known as electron spin.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 4, 2026

This gave MS NOW’s Ali Velshi an advantage at the network’s Big Board now that his former co-worker Steve Kornacki has moved over to NBC.

From Salon ● Nov. 4, 2026

Diageo is betting that big distillers have an advantage, as their legacy brands are recognizable.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 4, 2026

Guilty for the jealous thoughts I harbored, I took advantage of the crowd and made my escape downstairs.

From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom

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

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 3, 2026

"Now that picture might change, but as I can see it now in October 2026, that's where we are, there are more disadvantages than advantages."

From BBC ● Oct. 30, 2026

The tech giant is no longer loved by investors, despite its many advantages.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 29, 2026

However, the same immune-suppressing properties that create potential risks for patients could also offer advantages in certain research settings.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 27, 2026

She wanted to be somebody; wanted her children to have advantages she had never had.

From "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" by Betty Smith

“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

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

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

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

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

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

From Nobody by W. L. Jacobs


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