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relegate

[rel-i-geyt] / ˈrɛl ɪˌgeɪt /




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“The U.S. now accepts China as a strategic rival and peer versus a country they can try to relegate and control.”

From Barron's May 15, 2026

If it were down to me, though, I would relegate Wolves now and just chop them out of the league.

From BBC Dec. 29, 2025

In recent days, Musk has reiterated his Sci-Fi Socialism ideals that AI and robots will relegate work to being optional.

From The Wall Street Journal Dec. 7, 2025

What Skipper’s team has a chance to do Saturday might relegate those wins to fine print in his memoir.

From Los Angeles Times Oct. 24, 2025

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

He coolly confronts the old types, the man of caste, culture, privileges, royalties, and relegates him to the past.

From Whitman A Study by John Burroughs

Wolves in 2011-12, West Brom in 2017-18 and Leeds United in 2022-23 are the three teams who were relegated despite collecting seven points from their opening three matches.

From BBC Sep. 5, 2026

Thanks to the quirks of the accounting rules, those losses don’t appear on Boeing’s income statement and instead are relegated to footnotes about the acquisition.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 3, 2026

As an organizational psychologist, I’m convinced that Mark’s existential angst is not unique, nor is it relegated to content creators.

From Salon Aug. 30, 2026

One case relegated to the slow lane involves a unit of the global consulting firm Accenture, some of the people said.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 14, 2026

If Caroline had been relegated to the devil, she probably would have tamed him as well.

From "Jacob Have I Loved" by Katherine Paterson

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

Such a plan as this, of relegating important national work to odd hours spared from official duties, is a makeshift, and quite unworthy of this nation.

From The Scientific Basis of National Progress Including that of Morality by George Gore




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