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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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Related: As a nurse, I’ve seen people use their power of attorney to take advantage of their parents.

From MarketWatch Sep. 9, 2026

“We expect the added scale to compound that advantage: greater efficiency across a larger operating base, and an expanded value-add renovation program and other income initiatives across a larger platform,” he added.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 9, 2026

Alcaraz edged the opener on a tie-break - but only after surrendering his advantage after breaking for a seemingly decisive 6-5 lead.

From BBC Sep. 9, 2026

And of course, they are getting more from the ECB when they take advantage of the deposit facility for their excess cash.

From Barron's Sep. 9, 2026

It could give the guerrillas and the Americans added clues and perhaps an advantage.

From "At Last She Stood" by Erin Entrada Kelly

Its critics typically are those who fear ceding their own traditional advantages to others.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 9, 2026

But as the distance increases, those physical advantages appear to become less relevant and the gap starts to narrow.

From BBC Sep. 9, 2026

One of Milwaukee’s advantages is how easily you can use the city as a jumping-off point for a quick Wisconsin road trip.

From Salon Sep. 8, 2026

North Korea called the first road bridge across its narrow border with Russia a concrete sign of tightening bonds, state media reported Tuesday, as Pyongyang gains advantages from its powerful neighbours Moscow and Beijing.

From Barron's Sep. 8, 2026

To these advantages of Africa’s enormous head start were added those of highly diverse climates and habitats and of the world’s highest human diversity.

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

“If that isn’t a signal to grow production in an advantaged area like the Permian Basin, then I don’t know what is,” said CEO Kaes Van’t Hof on Diamondback’s earnings call early Tuesday.

From Barron's May 5, 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

“Sun Belt states are experiencing markets with the most advantaged buyers, while markets in the Northeast and Midwest frequently remain advantaged toward sellers.”

From MarketWatch Mar. 12, 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

It is self-love: worshipping thyself, comforting thyself, advantaging thyself, and regarding all others as either toys or slaves for that great idol, thyself.

From In Convent Walls The Story of the Despensers by M. (Madelaine) Irwin




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