How to Use third-rate in a Sentence
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Trump doesn’t understand that Iran doesn’t see itself as a third-rate power.
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John M. Crisp,
Mercury News,
25 June 2026
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CVTs are third-rate and do not belong in any vehicle ever.
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Ed Sokalski,
Chicago Tribune,
27 Feb. 2026
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And, anyway, who but élitists would object to a big ballroom that looks like the banquet hall of a third-rate casino?
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Adam Gopnik,
New Yorker,
25 Oct. 2025
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That is why Amanda is a true star and the rest of these ladies are just projections in a third-rate planetarium.
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Brian Moylan,
Vulture,
19 Aug. 2026
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Hart will insult Hammerstein as a third-rate talent and then, upon being face-to-face with his rival, spews over-the-top compliments.
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David Fear,
Rolling Stone,
15 Oct. 2025
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By now, not even third-rate circuses would hire me, much less an outfit like Hep Spyder’s, the World’s Famous Bushwick Circus.
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Ingrid Vasquez,
PEOPLE,
27 Aug. 2026
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