inferiority
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In the first few weeks of the war we have seen how Iran has managed its tactical and materiel inferiority to some effect.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 23, 2026
It was more sweat than style, but still not enough to make up for the glaring inferiority and inadequacies of the first half.
From BBC • Jan. 10, 2026
“Becoming Karl,” which depicts the rivalry between Mr. Lagerfeld and his peer, Yves Saint Laurent, focuses on Mr. Lagerfeld’s apparently enormous inferiority complex and the two men’s rivalry for the love of Jacques de Bascher.
From New York Times • Jun. 19, 2024
If you thought they were beefing over some rapper inferiority complexes — you were wrong.
From Salon • May 10, 2024
To modern eyes, the puzzle is not that this should have occurred, but that it should have taken so long for people to lose their inferiority complex.
From "The Scientists" by John Gribbin
Vocabulary lists containing inferiority
Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka (1954)
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The Catcher in the Rye
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Plessy v. Ferguson (1896)
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