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marginalization

[mahr-juh-nl-ahy-zey-shuhn] / ˌmɑr dʒə nl aɪˈzeɪ ʃən /
NOUN
exclusion from dominant culture
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The author, an older person, embraces talking to strangers to regain lost social connections and counter feelings of marginalization.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 18, 2026

Growing concerns about physical safety and political marginalization are prompting California’s Jewish community to withdraw from civic engagement and embrace more insular communal structures, particularly among Orthodox populations who face fewer barriers to community cohesion.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 30, 2025

Inequality and other forms of marginalization and identity overlap and intersect.

From Salon • May 29, 2025

Black women especially carry that burden and pain from the double marginalization of gender and race in America — and their roles as leaders in the long Black Freedom Struggle.

From Salon • Jan. 21, 2025

Its long history and gradual marginalization made Sing Sing increasingly different from the state’s other prisons.

From "Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing" by Ted Conover



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