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Recent Examples of low-rent These free or low-rent apps often have huge numbers of installs. Zak Doffman, Forbes, 21 Dec. 2024 Why do your first interview looking like you’re crammed into a low-rent diner? Howard Kurtz, Fox News, 30 Aug. 2024 But none targeted the rise of Nazism in Berlin during 1929 and 1930 using a low-rent nightclub as a metaphor for apathy. Oline Cogdill, Sun Sentinel, 3 Apr. 2024 The result can be really low-rent stuff appearing on a publisher's pages. Nate Anderson, Ars Technica, 13 Sep. 2024 See All Example Sentences for low-rent
Recent Examples of Synonyms for low-rent
Adjective
  • In the early 1970s, the widespread availability of cheap, preformed fiberglass pools meant the rate of young children drowning soared.
    Charlie Campbell, Time, 3 Apr. 2025
  • However, note that these are smaller models that could run on a less expensive GPUs or even a CPU with cheaper memory instead of the super expensive HBM memory currently used in all high-end accelerators.
    Karl Freund, Forbes.com, 3 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • There’s a real debate to be had about what responsibility better-off neighborhoods like Hyde Park have to help solve humanitarian problems that often are laid at the feet of poorer areas.
    The Editorial Board, Chicago Tribune, 6 Apr. 2025
  • The strong United cohort, almost entirely comprised of dominant sides under Ferguson, has not shied away from criticising the club, players and managers when results have been poor.
    Elias Burke, New York Times, 5 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • The rhetoric pushed here is that someone with a high body count has less value and will either make a terrible partner or no one will want them in the first place.
    Mark Travers, Forbes.com, 4 Apr. 2025
  • The domestic box office is presently in a terrible state, and Minecraft could prove to be the shot of confidence Hollywood studios and cinema owners need after recent films, including Disney’s Snow White, have turned into major disappointments.
    Pamela McClintock, HollywoodReporter, 4 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • Science popularization should not be considered as inferior to or detracting from traditional scientific research.
    Marshall Shepherd, Forbes.com, 6 Apr. 2025
  • The only asterisk is that their recent wins have mostly come against inferior opponents – Washington’s record is only 3-4-1 against teams in a playoff spot since the 4 Nations Face-Off. 4.
    James Mirtle, New York Times, 28 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • How does this not end up with boots smelling like rotten eggs?
    Inga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 31 Mar. 2025
  • In total, it's fixed more than 23 million rotten links on Wikipedia alone, according to the organization.
    Emma Bowman, NPR, 23 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • Listen to this article San Diego officials are scrambling to figure out how to fix or replace the 43-year-old Mission Beach lifeguard tower, which is in such bad shape structurally that it’s been declared a threat to public health and safety.
    David Garrick, San Diego Union-Tribune, 5 Apr. 2025
  • Jack: This is just a bad team that has occasionally had good days.
    The View from the Lane, New York Times, 5 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • TikTok clued us into the power of shaving your body—mainly your she-shrubbery—using what is technically a beard trimmer, because it's designed explicitly to motor through coarse hair.
    Annie Blackman, Allure, 27 Mar. 2025
  • The semi-aquatic mammals, best known for their coarse hair and characteristic flat tale, were almost wiped out due to overharvesting by an unregulated fur trade in the 19th century.
    Stephen Underwood, Hartford Courant, 25 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • Furthermore, poor diets are common in the U.S., and the fast pace of life can cause more stress than women experience elsewhere, Annapoorna Kini, MD, director of the Interventional Structural Heart Disease Program for the Mount Sinai Fuster Heart Hospital in New York, added.
    Kaitlin Sullivan, Health, 2 Apr. 2025
  • The American Kennel Club (AKC) notes that chewing on furniture and shoes is common in puppies, especially during teething.
    Josh Hammer, MSNBC Newsweek, 1 Apr. 2025

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“Low-rent.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/low-rent. Accessed 13 Apr. 2025.

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