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“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

Forest have six games left as they look to beat the drop - potentially helping to relegate Tottenham for the first time since 1977 in the process.

From BBC ● Apr. 16, 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

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

Still, workers clearly have some time before AI relegates them to the permanent underclass.

From MarketWatch ● Jun. 4, 2026

In my opinion that all but relegates Wolves now.

From BBC ● Oct. 26, 2025

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 drafting of Jaxon Smith-Njigba likely relegates Eskridge to being the fourth receiver.

From Seattle Times ● Jul. 22, 2023

Now, while he keeps in mind, it is true, this version of the confidential interview, he relegates it to the rear, and constitutes the Cabinet consideration the very citadel of his cause.

From The Judicial Murder of Mary E. Surratt by DeWitt, David Miller

And there’s likely a good reason for that: The term is typically only deployed by those comfortable being relegated as fringe, and Lamb seeks broad popularity.

From Slate ● Jul. 23, 2026

Take Rian Johnson, whose deal with Netflix has led to his “Knives Out” films being relegated to tiny theatrical release windows in limited markets before being tossed onto the streamer.

From Salon ● Jul. 15, 2026

In a humbling parallel, the team was recently relegated from Germany’s top soccer league.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 10, 2026

After completing a £52m move for Jan Paul van Hecke from Brighton, they signed Mateus Fernandes for a club-record £85m on Thursday from relegated West Ham.

From BBC ● Jul. 2, 2026

Black and green mold had begun to cover one side of her face—no doubt the reason this statue had been relegated here—but the goddess didn’t seem to mind.

From "Beasts of Prey" by Ayana Gray

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

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

There was a resultant concern that relegating Lyon would put Ligue 1 at disadvantage in terms of its global pull.

From BBC ● Jul. 11, 2025

They were quietly but obviously relegating him to the back of the scene.

From The Three Black Pennys A Novel by Hergesheimer, Joseph