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Alonso also arguably won in 2005 in an inferior car, but then it depends what "inferior" means.

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

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

Companies that grow assets quickly have historically produced inferior returns.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 14, 2026

Even in my dullness I knew I was inferior.

From "Flowers for Algernon" by Daniel Keyes

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

They also yell at their inferiors — “You threw us under the bus!”— without remorse.

From New York Times ● Nov. 23, 2018

This attitude was reinforced over the next few years, when a succession of critics, clearly Newton’s intellectual inferiors, raised a host of quibbles about his work, which showed their own ignorance more than anything else.

From "The Scientists" by John Gribbin