inferior
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As an antidote to Superman, Mr. Jaffee conceived of Inferior Man, a hapless superhero who at the first sign of trouble runs into a phone booth and puts his civilian clothes back on.
From Washington Post • Apr. 10, 2023
Inferior sewage systems allow waste to back up and pool, threatening public health and degrading basic dignity.
From Seattle Times • Aug. 2, 2022
Where I think the science matters, and the reason I wrote Inferior is because there are still people who claim that, biologically, what we’re fighting for, equality, is impossible.
From Slate • Feb. 20, 2018
Horgan then goes on to cite Angela Saini’s book Inferior, which makes the claim that hunter-gatherers were “remarkably egalitarian.”
From Scientific American • Jan. 11, 2018
Inferior courts were therefore in the beginning of the year 1621 appointed in convenient places to relieve the Governor and Council of the vast burthen of business and to render justice more cheap and accessible.
From How Justice Grew: Virginia Counties, An Abstract of Their Formation by Hiden, Martha Woodroof
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