- present tense form of relegate (3rd person singular).
relegates
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The resignation relegates the party to the third-largest group at Holyrood, with one member fewer than Labour.
From BBC ● Oct. 19, 2026
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
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
Mr. Henson relegates it to a footnote, and there he declares "once for all, that the Mosaic Law has nothing to do with the question."
From Flowers of Freethought (Second Series) by G. W. (George William) Foote
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