second-rate
Example Sentences
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They also require the world to shower prizes on them for their bumbling, second-rate work.
From Salon
With Netflix’s algorithmic approach and its need to keep its shelves overflowing with mostly second-rate material, might not the result veer toward AI slop?
China’s most famous AI export has already shown that it can close that gap with second-rate hardware.
In the span of just a few months, Google has fought off concerns that AI would kill its Search business and has transformed Gemini from a second-rate chatbot into a serious competitor to OpenAI’s ChatGPT.
From MarketWatch
It was an Ominous Landscape, painted by the same second-rate artist whose portrait of Agatha Swanburne hung in a secret gallery at the British Museum . . . and both were signed with the letter A. .
From Literature
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