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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

"The commission is concerned that Sanofi pursued a misleading communication campaign to disparage Fluad by portraying it as inferior to Efluelda, going against national vaccination recommendations in several member states," a commission statement said.

From Barron's ● Jun. 26, 2026

Xi once regarded services as inferior to the “real” economy.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 15, 2026

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

For this she was put to scragging, second-picking the bushes that had a few inferior puffs left on the twigs by swifter hands than hers.

From "Jazz" by Toni Morrison

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

You don’t seem to be in the habit of treating your neighbors as your inferiors.

From New York Times ● Apr. 19, 2022

He had known his sort in King’s Landing—fawning to his superiors, harsh to his inferiors, as blind as he was boastful and too proud by half.

From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin