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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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Together, these differences suggest that continued warming could give honey bees an even greater competitive advantage over some wild pollinators.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 22, 2026

Often they were seemingly simple premises that took advantage of legal loopholes — perhaps most famous was when he rebranded a local coffee shop as “Dumb Starbucks.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 22, 2026

But if you say, this is taking advantage of you, this is how they make their money, because over time you are going to lose, then that may be a better way of explaining it.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 22, 2026

That cheap, trashy aspect works to its advantage; it doesn’t have overblown action set pieces and doesn’t ask to be taken seriously.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 22, 2026

While hardly true, this explanation had the demonstrable advantage of permitting Jefferson’s vision of a Federalist conspiracy to congeal in a plausible pattern that formed around Washington without touching him directly.

From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis

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

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

Gifts of stock can help with public relations and offer financial advantages to wealthy individuals.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 19, 2026

A new idea: during meals I talk more to myself than to the others, which has two advantages.

From "The Diary of a Young Girl" by Anne Frank

The new data also found that pupils from more advantaged socio-economic backgrounds continued to perform better on average.

From BBC ● Sep. 8, 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

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

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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