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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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“When we have the opportunity to make a play, we need to make that play and take advantage of it.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 3, 2026

"I have a slight pinprick of advantage," he told himself in the castle's diary room.

From BBC ● Oct. 2, 2026

Trendforce, a research firm, said China’s manufacturing advantage could help it whittle away at America’s lead, since it could deploy humanoids faster at scale.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 2, 2026

The details are few, but human capital is an enduring advantage for free societies, and fixing military recruitment means more than signing up enough 18-year-olds to enlist.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 1, 2026

On November 12, the temperature soared to thirty-five degrees Fahrenheit, and several men took advantage of the warmth to take a wash in the snow.

From "Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World" by Jennifer Armstrong

But one of the advantages of hiring an adviser is getting a different perspective from someone who has an inside view of our holdings.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 3, 2026

He manages more than 300 people at the district attorney’s office and spent decades in the courtroom securing high-profile convictions — advantages that he contends outweigh his lack of civil litigation experience.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 27, 2026

In his statement in court, Francisco Texeira da Mota, representing Pinto, accepted that his client was "not a hero and not a saint" but said he had brought "advantages for society".

From BBC ● Sep. 26, 2026

With a vibrant social scene and plenty of recreation, it provides a realistic baseline for comparing the financial advantages of living and working abroad.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 22, 2026

In all this discussion of the Fertile Crescent’s advantages for the early rise of food production, we have not had to invoke any supposed advantages of Fertile Crescent peoples themselves.

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

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

“Our operations team demonstrated why they are the best in the business, putting us in an advantaged position to bring forward material value on our differentiated asset base.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 3, 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

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

“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

Three powers advantaging a Chieftain most Are Peace and Justice and an Armed Host.

From A Celtic Psaltery by Alfred Perceval Graves




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