inferior
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Which F1 drivers could consistently challenge for a world title in inferior cars?
From BBC ● Aug. 11, 2026
Like Iran, the Houthis are technologically far inferior to the U.S. military, but they present asymmetrical challenges.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 24, 2026
He concludes China is selling compute five to 10 times cheaper than the U.S., and, while its product may be inferior, it nonetheless boasts an obvious value proposition.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 20, 2026
Uruguay failed to beat Saudi Arabia or Cape Verde — two teams that, on paper, seemed inferior at the start of the tournament.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 27, 2026
Perhaps Cutie was right—and he was only an inferior being with a made-to-order memory and a life that had outlived its purpose.
From "I, Robot" by Isaac Asimov
It’s as though we, the attendees of prestige cinema, are peering down on our social inferiors, clucking condescendingly while we credit ourselves with advanced empathy.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 8, 2026
"Instead in those years he sat at home watching his contemporaries and intellectual inferiors on Newsnight."
From BBC ● Feb. 8, 2025
Caliban gives these fellows the idea of killing Prospero and taking over the island, but they quickly reveal themselves to be his moral inferiors.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 28, 2023
Jesus refused to treat women as inferiors despite living in a culture that treated them deplorably.
From New York Times ● May 12, 2018
He rolled along with every inexplicable order from his superiors, every foolish act of his inferiors, and every abrasive personality that military life could throw at an officer.
From "Unbroken" by Laura Hillenbrand
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