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inferior

[in-feer-ee-er] / ɪnˈfɪər i ər /




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They contend the costs and energy demands of producing and distributing it make it inferior to batteries in almost every case.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 17, 2026

Which F1 drivers could consistently challenge for a world title in inferior cars?

From BBC Aug. 11, 2026

"Its output is significantly inferior compared with regular batteries or car batteries," said Masayuki Nakao, engineering professor emeritus at the University of Tokyo, who has known Nakagawa for years.

From Barron's Aug. 5, 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

Here was he, junior to the judge by perhaps twenty years, and yet with a vastly inferior sense of self-preservation.

From "And Then There Were None" by Agatha Christie

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 had known his sort in King’s Landing—fawning to his superiors, harsh to his inferiors, as blind as he was boastful and too proud by half.

From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin




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