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relegate

[rel-i-geyt] / ˈrɛl ɪˌgeɪt /




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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

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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