as in worthlessness
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Recent Examples of inferiority
On the other hand, for white employees who do not believe in their ability to engage in similar courageous workplace actions, watching a white colleague engage in this type of action may elicit feelings of inferiority, leading to negative gossip about the individual who engaged in the action.
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Janice Gassam Asare, Forbes.com, 10 Aug. 2025
Janice Gassam Asare, Forbes.com, 10 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for inferiority
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The feelings of postpartum depression — despair, guilt, shame and worthlessness — began creeping in.—
Alyssa Goldberg,
USA Today,
3 Sep. 2025
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The findings also show that the 2025 cost-of-living adjustment, applied in October 2024, did little to improve the adequacy of SNAP benefits.—
Aliss Higham,
MSNBC Newsweek,
28 Sep. 2025
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Network adequacy calculations become fiction, exposing organizations to regulatory scrutiny and market access restrictions.—
Tammy Hawes,
Forbes.com,
18 Sep. 2025
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However, political observers and those on the right know that Kirk, as founder of Turning Point USA, was at heart an activist who transformed conservative youth politics through his robust organizing network and, in the process, changed the social acceptability of Trumpism among America's youth.—
Alex J. Rouhandeh,
MSNBC Newsweek,
11 Sep. 2025
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From my perspective, the real measure of acceptability isn't whether AI assisted in the process, but whether the final output demonstrates sound reasoning, originality and accuracy.—
Morey Haber,
Forbes.com,
27 Aug. 2025
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To determine the sufficiency of the evidence, the appellate judges identified the reasonable inferences that could be drawn from the circumstances proved.—
Nick Ferraro,
Twin Cities,
19 Aug. 2025
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Tsangari doles out information cagily, turning over narrative cards with calculated delay, a bare sufficiency that undercuts her world-building in favor of point-making; the just-enough story is also a just-so story.—
Richard Brody,
New Yorker,
8 Aug. 2025
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“Inferiority.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/inferiority. Accessed 4 Oct. 2025.
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