How to pronounce “second rate” in English

People have no choice but to become second rate machines themselves, or wards of the machines."

mean you could always get a second rate publisher.

There was no reason to call it a second rate regional power unless what you want to do is just pour gasoline on a fire.

They're too fantastical to be the the work of that kind of second rate mind.

So if you did even historical fiction, you were doing this second rate crap, and science fiction, even worse.

Rigorous clinical tests have been done as well, so we want to make sure the second rate product is not introduced into

You know, if you own stock in a company, you're kind of second rate compared to the management.

And I'd finally found something that I was actually quite good at, as opposed to these second rate movies I was making.