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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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I think the job of regulators is to go there and police the markets, be the cop on the beat and punish wrongdoers who seek to take advantage.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 27, 2026

Directing “gave him a long-awaited power advantage, avenging him” for childhood slights.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 27, 2026

One advantage for Siemens Energy is its greater exposure to small- and medium-frame gas turbines, which are generally faster to deploy than the largest heavy-frame machines, said Atin Jain, an analyst at BloombergNEF.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 26, 2026

“Wicker” wisely uses its silly conceit to its advantage, rather than letting it dominate the film’s central conversations.

From Salon ● Oct. 26, 2026

And how I might pit one against the other to my advantage with a few teeny, tiny little lies.

From "Liar, Liar" by Gary Paulsen

I would have thought that one of the advantages of being super rich is that you no longer have to let money dictate your choices.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 22, 2026

These advantages could make hydrodissection an attractive option for people seeking relief without undergoing surgery or receiving repeated steroid injections.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 22, 2026

A lack of a substantial governing background has its advantages, too, as it allows her to draw up positions from scratch.

From Slate ● Oct. 22, 2026

He hopes to eventually follow the students into high school and college to examine whether their early academic advantages translate into higher graduation rates and college readiness.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 22, 2026

Pizarro’s military advantages lay in the Spaniards’ steel swords and other weapons, steel armor, guns, and horses.

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

“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

"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

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

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

“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

Are you not the fools to be advantaging yourselves of comforts you might be sure no fairy left for Campbells in Dalness?

From John Splendid The Tale of a Poor Gentleman, and the Little Wars of Lorn by Neil Munro


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