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inferior

[in-feer-ee-er] / ɪnˈfɪər i ər /




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And it's hard to argue any of his Ferrari titles were won in an inferior car.

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

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

I had no sense of being inferior or superior to the people about me; 1 merely felt that they had had no chance to learn to live differently.

From "Black Boy" by Richard Wright

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

Consequently we were not royal but snobbish, not aristocratic but class-conscious; we believed authority was cruelty to our inferiors, and education was being at school.

From "The Bluest Eye" by Toni Morrison




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