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Green is good, but it’s better wildlife encounters that might eventually relegate diesel to travel’s endangered species list.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 2026

“The U.S. now accepts China as a strategic rival and peer versus a country they can try to relegate and control.”

From Barron's ● May 15, 2026

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

There is no option other than to relegate herself to this turmoil.

From Salon ● Oct. 9, 2025

I wasn’t going to relegate our love to the creeping pace of the postal service.

From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama

The resignation relegates the party to the third-largest group at Holyrood, with one member fewer than Labour.

From BBC ● Oct. 19, 2026

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

The move relegates Miller Moss to a reserve role after nine uneven starts this season.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 5, 2024

Moses likewise relegates the legend and songs of Artavasd to their proper places.

From Armenian Legends and Festivals by Louis A. Boettiger

As such, it could be argued that Wolves were the first team to suffer a double drop from the Premier League after being relegated in 2011-12.

From BBC ● Oct. 29, 2026

Every October, societal outcasts and weirdos relegated to the underground are permitted passage back into the mainstream.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 28, 2026

Second, it marks a solid finale for a genre largely relegated to streaming, because for some odd reason, film executives don’t understand how powerful a collective romantic experience outside your living room can be.

From Salon ● Oct. 26, 2026

On one side, near-record home prices and the recent surge in mortgage rates above 7% have relegated buyers to the sidelines.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 19, 2026

They live in a larger hut than the first family, but still we are relegated to the corner of the room.

From "First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers" by Loung Ung

Sweeping contentious issues under the rug and relegating them to wanton aggravation is one major way of letting these same topics fester.

From Salon ● Apr. 3, 2026

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

The move was nearly unprecedented; for years, royal councils had made most of the decisions of government, relegating Louis to being, Mr. Hardman tells us, a king “buried in the crown.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 31, 2025

And there I go, relegating the white-ball team to a second-tier status.

From BBC ● Feb. 27, 2025

The representation of ourselves as entertained dislodges from our internal field of vision our actual condition, relegating this to the region of obscure consciousness.

From Illusions A Psychological Study by James Sully