inferior

Example Sentences

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For almost all the financial goals confronting average American families, such as saving for college or retirement, they’re inferior to tax-advantaged savings plans already on the books.

From Los Angeles Times • May 12, 2026

The court found that administrative patent judges, who hold inferior office, should be subject to appointment by both the president and the Senate, unless their relevant director appoints them.

From Salon • May 2, 2026

Often, they buy banks inferior to their own, and issue their shares at cheap valuations, which is the opposite of what they should be doing: reducing the share count, not increasing it.

From Barron's • Apr. 16, 2026

Navy, which wanted the best and thus had no interest in Dreyer’s inferior system, funneled information about the Pollen-Isherwood system to an American startup.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 10, 2026

Strict separation of the races would have threatened slaveholders’ immediate interests and was, in any event, wholly unnecessary as a means of creating social distance or establishing the inferior status of slaves.

From "The New Jim Crow" by Michelle Alexander