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Example sentences for: second-tier

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The Los Angeles Times leads with depressing news about California's second-tier state college system: an overwhelming number of its incoming students lack the basic math and English skills they should have acquired in high school.
Just one time (this was years before I was a second-tier public radio personality) I went to see his show at the Tech College, caught him out in the corridor, and lied to him about how much I liked his show (really, he talks so slow it makes me nervous, plus all that lip noise indicating introspection being released into the atmosphere) and, silly boy, launched into how I was doing a live daily radio show from a greasy spoon and all, and he looked at me and said, "Do you know where the bathroom is?"
Commoditization can only take place, after all, in a world in which second-tier companies can compete in terms of quality and efficiency with top-of-the-line companies.
It's a country where nearly everyone goes to church each week, and nearly every candidate flaunts his involvement with God the way Trump flaunts his with second-tier fashion models.
It seems to "Today's Papers" that such men should get at least as much advance press attention as second-tier presidential candidates do.