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worse

adjective as in something less good

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Lahey underscored the notion that lower-income people are more likely to retire at age 62 because they tend to be in jobs that are more physically demanding and they tend to have worse health.

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Making matters worse was the appearance of an American diktat.

It could still use the completed capacity in the open market, given the high levels of demand for AI compute, but the margin and profit assumptions would change for the worse.

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There is a widespread sense of resignation and a feeling that things can only get worse.

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There have always been people working in California’s fields that are underpaid and underappreciated, and in some ways, things have only gotten worse for a lot of that population.

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