marginalize
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“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
In fact, the former employee says, DOE higher-ups seemed to marginalize both the Office of Science and Berhe.
From Science Magazine ● Mar. 15, 2024
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.)
There’s a wave of students who have no tolerance for speech that marginalizes.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 12, 2024
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
The group recommends a "gender-affirming" and "nonjudgmental approach that helps children feel safe in a society that too often marginalizes or stigmatizes those seen as different."
From Salon ● Mar. 13, 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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What may be arguably new is treating the audiences for historically marginalized forms of art as central rather than peripheral.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 9, 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
But it was largely what Parton did and said outside the recording studio and film set that made her such an inspiring and beloved figure, especially in communities that had been overlooked, marginalized or demonized.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 26, 2026
Those marginalized communities, like most voters around the country, don’t have the same tastes as the gentrifying parts of Harlem and upper Manhattan.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 23, 2026
As legal scholar John A. Powell once commented, only half in jest, “It’s actually better to be exploited than marginalized, in some respects, because if you’re exploited presumably you’re still needed.”
From "The New Jim Crow" by Michelle Alexander
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The French revolutionaries feared industrialization would depersonalize society by marginalizing skilled artisans.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 5, 2025
Rather than marginalizing the press, Hegseth has amplified its critical role in public debate.
From Salon ● Oct. 15, 2025
Yoon dismissed such a notion, saying “the trilateral cooperation harbors no intention of marginalizing any particular nation or establishing an exclusive coalition.”
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 16, 2023
The switch has reordered the auto industry, making Tesla the best-selling brand and marginalizing established carmakers like Renault and Fiat.
From New York Times ● May 8, 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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