consign
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Defeat on Sunday would consign Rangers to their first third-placed finish since 2018.
From BBC ● May 5, 2026
Never mind the state’s environmental laws that consign building projects to purgatory.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 8, 2026
In March of last year, eight months after Schneider had already agreed to consign his witch’s hat to Heritage, Shaw announced that he planned to sell the slippers at auction through Heritage.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 28, 2025
This isn’t to consign Richman to pop’s deep bin of one-hit wonders.
From New York Times ● Dec. 6, 2024
A three-mile comet!—it was exactly the sort of extravagant notion that the whitecoats sought to consign to the historical dustbin.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
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Instead the two become friends, and Cora consigns the fling to the realm of her imagination.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 31, 2025
It consigns out-of-form Fakhar Zaman to the bench at least in the short term, while also adding strength to the batting lineup that is so dependent on captain Babar Azam and Mohammed Rizwan.
From Washington Times ● Oct. 13, 2023
"We will not give up... the alternative consigns us to a watery grave," Bahamas Prime Minister Philip Davies said.
From BBC ● Nov. 8, 2022
“Gucci” has won some ardent fans swooning over Lady Gaga’s scenery-chewing, roaring, Haaaaaa-ahhhh-ahhh-ohhhh-ahhaaaaaa-ahhhh-ahhh-ohhhh-ah!!! turn as the story’s aggrieved Lady Macbeth stand-in, which I can appreciate up till the movie consigns her to the background.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 23, 2021
If it were right,—if I dared, I would hasten to him; but my conscience inexorably forbids the thought, and consigns my heart to torture, for which there is no name.
From Vashti or, Until Death Us Do Part by Wilson, Augusta J. Evans
“Yet here is this singular brilliance, consigned to a small span of years. He places the two side by side in the scales.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 8, 2026
When she was consigned to a sale in the summer of 2021, he bought her with Hidden Brook for $135,000.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 30, 2026
The question of whether Spurs are too good to go down was consigned to the dustbin long ago.
From BBC ● Apr. 12, 2026
Raul Garcia's superb 90th-minute strike consigned leaders Real Madrid to a 2-1 defeat at Osasuna in La Liga on Saturday, in a blow to their title hopes.
From Barron's ● Feb. 21, 2026
The lettuce was consigned to commission merchants in New York at a fine price.
From "East of Eden" by John Steinbeck
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Mr. Booker, then Newark’s mayor, responded with a viral tweet “banning” Mr. O’Brien from Newark airport and consigning him to JFK instead.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 6, 2026
The landscape is particularly difficult for first-time buyers, consigning many to the used car market, Drury said.
From Barron's ● Jan. 7, 2026
Clarke acknowledged the questionable morality of such a project, consigning these explorers to an “onerous and uncertain future.”
From Slate ● Dec. 9, 2025
The forward was held back by stewards at the final whistle following the Hammers' 3-2 EFL Cup defeat at Molineux - late goals consigning them to a third-straight loss.
From BBC ● Aug. 26, 2025
I believe that justice demands that you reject the testimony of these men, consigning their stories to the area of deep doubt.
From "Monster" by Walter Dean Myers
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