as in unacceptable
falling short of a standard
a teacher who rejects substandard work without hesitation
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Recent Examples of substandard
Uncontrolled, open-source diffusion could give rise to smaller gangs or tribes with substandard but substantial AI capacities, sufficient to administer to, provide for, and defend themselves within some limited scope.
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Henry A. Kissinger, Foreign Affairs, 18 Nov. 2024
Workers commonly suffer from wage theft, threats and substandard living conditions, The Post found.
—Sam Tabachnik, The Denver Post, 1 Nov. 2024
There are ripple effects across all the story’s players, touching on many aspects of our justice system, from substandard investigations that seed confirmation bias, to trials driven by political expediency and our need for good stories over the truth.
—Robert Abele, Los Angeles Times, 31 Oct. 2024
In the past, auditors found deficiencies and, in some cases, substandard conditions in contractor-run detention facilities and shelters.
—Nick Penzenstadler, USA TODAY, 31 Oct. 2024
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Henry A. Kissinger, Foreign Affairs, 18 Nov. 2024
Workers commonly suffer from wage theft, threats and substandard living conditions, The Post found.
—Sam Tabachnik, The Denver Post, 1 Nov. 2024
There are ripple effects across all the story’s players, touching on many aspects of our justice system, from substandard investigations that seed confirmation bias, to trials driven by political expediency and our need for good stories over the truth.
—Robert Abele, Los Angeles Times, 31 Oct. 2024
In the past, auditors found deficiencies and, in some cases, substandard conditions in contractor-run detention facilities and shelters.
—Nick Penzenstadler, USA TODAY, 31 Oct. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for substandard
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This time difference is unacceptable and the cause of many breaches.Austin Gadient, Forbes, 13 Dec. 2024
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During Tuesday’s meeting, board members agreed that Morris’ remark was unacceptable.Ian James, Los Angeles Times, 12 Dec. 2024
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So this poor kid [who finished in last], this single guy, for a year had to have a Fathead of his buddy in boxers, a giant life-size Fathead above his bed.Pat Leonard, New York Daily News, 13 Dec. 2024
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In many poor and densely populated neighborhoods across the country, people have access to free, unmetered electricity.Nasser Karimi and Jon Gambrell, Los Angeles Times, 13 Dec. 2024
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As holidays go, however, Flag Day can feel a bit lame.Kevin Fisher-Paulson, San Francisco Chronicle, 8 June 2021
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My 11-year-old loved watching the pups roll balls and play a giant floor piano, but for non-dog owners (guilty as charged), parts of the series—like dressing dogs in little hats and outfits for a Parisian fashion show—feel lame.Tim Neville, Outside Online, 23 Nov. 2020
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Six people, including two children, are dead after a person driving a pickup truck the wrong way on a Mississippi highway collided with a car.Charlotte Phillipp, People.com, 8 Dec. 2024
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Sometimes, people do things that are morally wrong or ambiguous or whatever for certain reasons.Destiny Jackson, Deadline, 7 Dec. 2024
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In healthy individuals who aren’t deficient in biotin, biotin supplementation will likely have no effect on hair growth, the same review concluded.Caroline C. Boyle, USA TODAY, 20 Nov. 2024
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The latest decision in the 30-year-long legal saga vacated a Baltimore Circuit Judge’s previous ruling regarding school funding, but still ultimately rejected the plaintiffs’ attempt to revive the litigation over claims of deficient education standards at city schools.Dan Belson, Baltimore Sun, 19 Nov. 2024
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If anything, the living conditions seemed to get worse.Chris Quintana, USA TODAY, 13 Dec. 2024
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While working as an advocate for victims of domestic violence herself, she was attacked by someone else’s abuser and her symptoms got worse, particularly trouble with her balance.Marina Kopf, NBC News, 12 Dec. 2024
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But the study was deeply flawed, according to the standards of scientific research.Eduardo Cuevas, USA TODAY, 14 Dec. 2024
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Since then of course, Burgundy has come to dominate the fine wine market, building on its own extensive history and reinforcing its status, however flawed, with a clear hierarchy of quality through the Premier and Grand Cru system.Paul Caputo, Forbes, 13 Dec. 2024
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“Substandard.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/substandard. Accessed 22 Dec. 2024.
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