relegates

Example Sentences

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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

"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

These movies were never likely blockbusters, but it’s only the current crisis of the movie business that relegates them to a cloistered isolation.

From The New Yorker • Jun. 9, 2023

It relegates Monroe’s greatness to the level of surfaces and publicity and indiscriminate goddess worship, as if her beauty could be somehow disentangled from her singular greatness — her genius — as an actor.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 26, 2022

I am afraid that saying relegates me to the ranks of the fools, but I am content to remain there. 

From Songs of the Army of the Night by Adams, Francis William Lauderdale