third-rate

Example Sentences

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For investors, the narrow decision sets up a potential third-rate rise this year at the Australian central bank’s next board meeting in May.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 23, 2026

"I kind of ditched them. I started listening to what A&R or the record labels felt they had slots for. I was called a third-rate Pat Benatar. I was probably a fifth-rate Pat Benatar."

From Salon • Mar. 28, 2025

It’s tough being so rich you can outspend anyone, but not so rich you can afford to buy a third-rate social network without a little help.

From Slate • Oct. 10, 2023

Alicia is searingly brilliant at mathematics, ethereally beautiful and usually in conversation with a troupe of third-rate Vaudevillian hallucinations.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 21, 2022

Did we really think that little Mica, undefeated in its own third-rate league, could ever stand up to the big-city powerhouses around the state?

From "Stargirl" by Jerry Spinelli