demote

The Pentagon has since tried in vain to demote his military rank and a grand jury have declined to charge him with seditious conspiracy.

From BBC ● Feb. 16, 2026

Kelly filed a lawsuit in January that accused Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth of violating his First Amendment rights by moving to formally censure him and demote him over the video.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 11, 2026

Hegseth issued a letter of censure against the retired Navy veteran and announced the Department of Defense would decide whether to demote Kelly and reduce his pension in the coming weeks.

From Salon ● Jan. 12, 2026

The Tesla board would probably have to remove or at least demote him.

From Slate ● Jun. 9, 2025

I step forward, realizing Director Van Helsing may have done me a favor when he decided to demote me.

From "Amari and the Night Brothers" by B.B. Alston

The Company rakes her over the coals, demotes her, and doesn’t believe her report about an alien creature that has a razor-sharp tail, knife-like teeth and highly caustic acid for blood.

From Salon ● Jul. 4, 2025

The win, Saints' ninth of the season, demotes Wigan Warriors into second place, however Matt Peet's side now have two games in hand on their rivals.

From BBC ● May 24, 2024

Facebook said it also demotes content from news publishers that users rate as untrusted in surveys and content posted by pages or accounts that repeatedly violate its rules.

From Reuters ● Sep. 23, 2021

Of course, as soon as Coleman demotes him we know his resentment will boil over.

From New York Times ● Jul. 5, 2016

“When an employer demotes an employee out of a desire to prevent the employee from engaging in political activity that the First Amendment protects, the employee is entitled to challenge that unlawful action.”

From Washington Post ● Apr. 26, 2016

He continued, in ninth place, from where he was demoted out of the points with a penalty for exceeding track limits while he was battling the steering problems.

From BBC ● Jul. 5, 2026

The man who shockingly demoted then-24-year-old goalkeeper Guillermo “Memo” Ochoa in favor of a more experienced player prior to the 2010 World Cup was now relying on upstarts.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 30, 2026

They excluded those that used to be in a larger-stock category and got demoted, or those that entered the market through an initial public offering.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 26, 2026

Lyon won an appeal against relegation the following month, after initially being demoted to Ligue 2 by French football's financial watchdog.

From Barron's ● Jun. 23, 2026

How would you like to be King of the Planet for eight glorious years, and then suddenly get demoted to Vice-King?

From "Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie" by Jordan Sonnenblick

Their paper outlining the method is titled “I Know What You Did Last Summer” because that’s when the leading small-cap index, the Russell 2000, has been rebalanced each year, promoting some stocks and demoting others.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 26, 2026

The European Commission said Google is demoting media publishers' websites and content in search results when they include content from commercial partners, such as sponsored editorial pieces.

From Barron's ● Nov. 13, 2025

The mayor said she was demoting Crowley for failing to inform her about the dangerous conditions or to activate hundreds of firefighters ahead of the blaze.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 20, 2025

Arquette, who won an Oscar for Richard Linklater's 2014 film Boyhood, says her character is "furious" that the corporation, in demoting her, has failed to recognise her loyalty.

From BBC ● Jan. 17, 2025

He regarded this as a slight, that I was in effect demoting him, and he refused, choosing instead to run for the presidency himself.

From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela