consigned

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“Yet here is this singular brilliance, consigned to a small span of years. He places the two side by side in the scales.”

From The Wall Street Journal • May 8, 2026

The club suffered the earliest-ever relegation in English football, as defeat at Sheffield United on 22 February consigned them to League One with 13 games to play.

From BBC • May 2, 2026

When she was consigned to a sale in the summer of 2021, he bought her with Hidden Brook for $135,000.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 30, 2026

Combined with the move towards colour, the black and white story was thought to have little future value and consigned to the bin.

From BBC • Mar. 12, 2026

Stannis Baratheon stood grim-faced by the funeral pyre as the lad’s body was consigned to the flames.

From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin