second-class
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The company and its followers have long chafed at their second-class status, and last week’s iPhone unveiling reignited the resentments.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 17, 2026
Anthropologist Anastasia Piliavsky, part of a group called Ukrainian Cosmopolis which aims to defend freedom of thought and speech, believes Russian-speakers are being made to feel like second-class citizens who are deprived of their heritage.
From BBC ● Sep. 5, 2026
Children won’t get "a first-class education in second-class schools", she argued after hundreds of schools had to close as a result of crumbling concrete.
From BBC ● Jun. 22, 2026
It was at a few after-hours music jam sessions with his co-workers that they got to talking about how in the world of AI audio had become “a second-class citizen.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 28, 2026
They wished to be seen as individuals, full and equal citizens who could not be told to leave or treated as second-class members of society.
From "Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science" by Marc Aronson
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