relegate
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Before the show, the singer told the Jerusalem Post he was determined to concentrate on the music and relegate any criticisms to "background noise".
From BBC ● May 12, 2026
"And the US threatens to relegate the organisation to even greater irrelevance if it doesn't get what it wants," she told AFP.
From Barron's ● Mar. 27, 2026
They would rather relegate Robyn to “cringe” status.
From Salon ● Jan. 10, 2026
In recent days, Musk has reiterated his Sci-Fi Socialism ideals that AI and robots will relegate work to being optional.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 7, 2025
Had the arrangement been otherwise, we would use base eight or base twelve arithmetic and relegate base ten to the New Math.
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
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Still, workers clearly have some time before AI relegates them to the permanent underclass.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 4, 2026
Apple TV+ is so far down the list of streamers by watch time that Nielsen relegates it to the “other streaming” category of a pie chart.
From Slate ● Jan. 16, 2025
"We're not doing anything illegal. We act according to the law. As for being scared, fear mustn't prevail. I believe in what I'm doing. And this conviction relegates fear to second place."
From BBC ● Jan. 31, 2024
The drafting of Jaxon Smith-Njigba likely relegates Eskridge to being the fourth receiver.
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 22, 2023
I am afraid that saying relegates me to the ranks of the fools, but I am content to remain there.
From Songs of the Army of the Night by Francis William Lauderdale Adams
Burnley, relegated from the Premier League last season, have made a poor start back in the second tier and have not won in five matches under new boss Nicky Hayen.
From BBC ● Sep. 6, 2026
Thanks to the quirks of the accounting rules, those losses don’t appear on Boeing’s income statement and instead are relegated to footnotes about the acquisition.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 3, 2026
As an organizational psychologist, I’m convinced that Mark’s existential angst is not unique, nor is it relegated to content creators.
From Salon ● Aug. 30, 2026
One case relegated to the slow lane involves a unit of the global consulting firm Accenture, some of the people said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 2026
My job was soon relegated to working in the pens, moving the sheep from one to the next to let them learn to recognize their lambs before it got more crowded.
From This Side of Wild by Gary Paulsen
What could we learn if we thought about movies outside of a straight stream of consumption, and what are we missing by relegating movie-watching to such an automatic process?
From Salon ● Mar. 22, 2026
There’s something to be said for the virtue of relegating important works to a period of obscurity to turbo-charge the excitement of rediscovery.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 30, 2025
The crown jewels of the arcade industry, they occupy the building's first two floors, relegating video games to the basement and upper levels.
From Barron's ● Dec. 26, 2025
Cerebras inscribed the memory directly on to the wafer rather than relegating it to distant chips and chiplets in high-bandwidth memory mazes.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 3, 2025
But in the latter half of the era these appeared in ever increasing multitudes, displacing the lower types and relegating them to a subordinate position.
From Dinosaurs With Special Reference to the American Museum Collections by Henry Fairfield Osborn
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