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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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However, “it’s going to take time, and threat actors are going to take advantage of that process while we’re on it,” he said.

From MarketWatch • Apr. 18, 2026

"Sometimes you need that in a week, so it's nice to get, and then even nicer to take advantage of it."

From BBC • Apr. 18, 2026

The Lakers finished the regular season with three consecutive wins to hang on to home-court advantage in the first round.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 18, 2026

A defender relying on after-the-fact interpretation has already yielded the advantage.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 17, 2026

Of course she had no idea if ostriches cared about that sort of thing; perhaps there was some advantage to having a skull full of eyeballs instead of brains.

From "The Unseen Guest" by Maryrose Wood




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