worse

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Recent Examples of worse And new figures show that rather than improving, the problem has been getting worse. Jon Marcus, BostonGlobe.com, 24 Jan. 2023 Law enforcement sources also believe Tran was having unspecified emotional problems that had been getting worse in the weeks before the shooting. Los Angeles Times, 24 Jan. 2023 While the future is looking better, right now things are still getting worse. WIRED, 24 Jan. 2023 Essentially those factors compound the climate change factors which are also getting worse. Jan Ellen Spiegel, Hartford Courant, 22 Jan. 2023 See All Example Sentences for worse
Recent Examples of Synonyms for worse
Adjective
  • But all of that would’ve been forgiven if Golden State’s offense didn’t cool down at the worst possible time.
    C.J. Holmes, San Francisco Chronicle, 8 Feb. 2023
  • Continue below to see the top 10 best and worst cities for football fans in 2023.
    Haadiza Ogwude, The Enquirer, 8 Feb. 2023
Adjective
  • Toronto’s Fred VanVleet appears to be the top target, but Miami’s Kyle Lowry, Utah’s Mike Conley and, perhaps to a lesser extent, Charlotte’s Terry Rozier have been linked to the team at various points.
    Staff Writer Follow, Los Angeles Times, 3 Feb. 2023
  • The story of 2022 (and 2021 to a lesser extent) was energy.
    Nicole Goodkind, CNN, 31 Jan. 2023
Adjective
  • Told that Indigenous people were evolutionarily inferior to white Europeans and Americans, visitors accepted the idea that colonialist progress would soon condemn these groups to extinction.
    Shoshi Parks, Smithsonian Magazine, 20 June 2025
  • The Pacers are just way more inferior and the Thunder got stagnant all of a sudden.
    Fred Katz, New York Times, 17 June 2025
Adjective
  • This means that some particles will decay in the normal world while their counterparts in the mirror would not.
    Zack Savitsky, Wired News, 22 June 2025
  • On Tuesdays, theater tickets at Cinemark Century Folsom 7 cost $5.50, compared to the normal ticket price of $10.99.
    Veronica Fernandez-Alvarado, Sacbee.com, 21 June 2025

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“Worse.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/worse. Accessed 3 Jul. 2025.

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