marginalize
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“There are no immediate eligibility matters affecting the WNBA, and we strongly denounce the bad-faith efforts to use these topics to demean or marginalize others,” a league spokesperson said last week in a statement.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 19, 2026
“He is worried about having people more capable than him in leadership, which explains his effort to marginalize his Army secretary,” he said.
From Salon ● May 1, 2026
When the market’s directional trend is hijacked by forces that marginalize financial metrics like corporate earnings growth and profit margins, it’s more significant than merely investor sentiment souring.
From Barron's ● Mar. 11, 2026
Efforts to marginalize their participation do not reduce inequality of influence.
From MarketWatch ● Feb. 24, 2026
By doing so, it would help marginalize extremists and terrorists, promote U.S. values and interests, and improve America's global image.
From The Iraq Study Group Report by Iraq Study Group (U.S.)
But the four-team model severely marginalizes really good teams that deserve better.
From Washington Times ● Dec. 4, 2023
It was Hoover’s first taste of the “oligopoly” at the heart of the economics profession, which channels power to a handful of institutions and marginalizes thousands of economists working outside them.
From Slate ● May 10, 2023
But, Botha says, “Civility is only possible when there is an equal playing field,” which can’t exist, they say, as long as the field marginalizes autistic people.
From Science Magazine ● Feb. 6, 2023
He has lamented how today’s “throwaway culture” wrongly marginalizes disabled people.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 28, 2023
Most importantly perhaps, how can I incorporate music into a curriculum that marginalizes the arts?
From "Music and the Child" by Natalie Sarrazin
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“When safe cycling infrastructure goes in, then you see a lot more women, a lot more marginalized communities, also children, elderly people, people with disabilities,” Roach said.
From Salon ● Aug. 27, 2026
“So that’s of course why they’re connecting it to DEI because it is a good thing for marginalized people.”
From Salon ● Aug. 27, 2026
There are also concerns that social media can form an important part of the lives of marginalized young people in particular.
From Slate ● Jun. 18, 2026
Although the women of “The Pitt” would never compare acting to saving lives, Briones believes that the experiences of women — especially from marginalized communities — share commonalities across many male-dominated industries.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 3, 2026
As time passed he became increasingly marginalized and even a little pitied.
From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson
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After coming to power in 1979, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini promised to “preserve” the bazaar and blamed the deposed shah of Iran for marginalizing the traditional market, parts of which are some 2,000 years old.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 22, 2026
Critics worry that cities will lean into criminalizing and further marginalizing unhoused people, worsening the crisis.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 2, 2024
I went because the idea of further marginalizing our unhoused neighbors is immoral and detrimental to our communities.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 22, 2024
"We've marginalized these habitats so much already. And we're marginalizing them further by loving them to death," Fraga said.
From Salon ● Mar. 3, 2023
It was a small-minded and ludicrous insult, sure, but his mocking of my intellect, his marginalizing of my young self, carried with it a larger dismissiveness.
From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama
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