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relegate

[rel-i-gayt] / ˈrɛl ɪˌgeɪt /




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Before the show, the singer told the Jerusalem Post he was determined to concentrate on the music and relegate any criticisms to "background noise".

From BBC ● May 12, 2026

"And the US threatens to relegate the organisation to even greater irrelevance if it doesn't get what it wants," she told AFP.

From Barron's ● Mar. 27, 2026

One idea is to relegate certain demanding workloads to superconductors, which conduct electricity with zero resistance and produce almost no heat.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 4, 2026

They would rather relegate Robyn to “cringe” status.

From Salon ● Jan. 10, 2026

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

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 move relegates Miller Moss to a reserve role after nine uneven starts this season.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 5, 2024

"We're not doing anything illegal. We act according to the law. As for being scared, fear mustn't prevail. I believe in what I'm doing. And this conviction relegates fear to second place."

From BBC ● Jan. 31, 2024

Some of these it relegates, though with little expectation of a successful solution, to special sciences, others it shows to be such as our capacities are essentially incapable of solving.

From Mysticism and Logic and Other Essays by Bertrand Russell

Only two years ago, they were winning the Championship play-off final before their place in Super League was confirmed by the IMG grading system, having been relegated in 2023.

From BBC ● Oct. 3, 2026

It risks sanctions ranging from being stripped of its titles to being relegated from the league.

From Barron's ● Oct. 1, 2026

They were relegated at the end of the 2000-01 campaign and would spend the next 11 seasons in the second tier before dropping down to League One in 2012.

From BBC ● Sep. 19, 2026

But many of these vehicles have been relegated to driveways and garages due to the challenge of passing a smog check.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 17, 2026

She doesn’t mean to be cruel, she doesn’t know she’s just relegated me to the dust heap along with crank telephones and whalebone stays.

From "Cat's Eye" by Margaret Atwood

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

There’s something to be said for the virtue of relegating important works to a period of obscurity to turbo-charge the excitement of rediscovery.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 30, 2025

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

The move was nearly unprecedented; for years, royal councils had made most of the decisions of government, relegating Louis to being, Mr. Hardman tells us, a king “buried in the crown.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 31, 2025

But at this relegating phrase his sense of humour rose to mock him.

From Tante by Anne Douglas Sedgwick




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