marginalize
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“He is worried about having people more capable than him in leadership, which explains his effort to marginalize his Army secretary,” he said.
From Salon ● May 1, 2026
When the market’s directional trend is hijacked by forces that marginalize financial metrics like corporate earnings growth and profit margins, it’s more significant than merely investor sentiment souring.
From Barron's ● Mar. 11, 2026
Efforts to marginalize their participation do not reduce inequality of influence.
From MarketWatch ● Feb. 24, 2026
In fact, the former employee says, DOE higher-ups seemed to marginalize both the Office of Science and Berhe.
From Science Magazine ● Mar. 15, 2024
By doing so, it would help marginalize extremists and terrorists, promote U.S. values and interests, and improve America's global image.
From The Iraq Study Group Report by Iraq Study Group (U.S.)
There’s a wave of students who have no tolerance for speech that marginalizes.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 12, 2024
But the four-team model severely marginalizes really good teams that deserve better.
From Washington Times ● Dec. 4, 2023
It was Hoover’s first taste of the “oligopoly” at the heart of the economics profession, which channels power to a handful of institutions and marginalizes thousands of economists working outside them.
From Slate ● May 10, 2023
But, Botha says, “Civility is only possible when there is an equal playing field,” which can’t exist, they say, as long as the field marginalizes autistic people.
From Science Magazine ● Feb. 6, 2023
National and state laws and a trend toward teaching and testing “core subjects” reshape social perceptions and create a permanent culture that continually marginalizes the arts in the curriculum.
From "Music and the Child" by Natalie Sarrazin
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Those marginalized communities, like most voters around the country, don’t have the same tastes as the gentrifying parts of Harlem and upper Manhattan.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 23, 2026
This is a question that Black and brown Americans, and members of other marginalized groups, have been asking themselves for centuries.
From Salon ● Jun. 30, 2026
Simply by earning his way on to the Lakers roster five years ago, Reaves has been a great role model for everyone who has ever been ignored or shunned or marginalized.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 24, 2026
Fox also had his own spreadsheet, built around a Control-F search for terms like tribal, immigrants, diversity, inclusion, Indigenous, Native, equity, equality, marginalized, BIPOC, solidarity, citizenship, melting pot, social justice, and gay.
From Slate ● May 14, 2026
I even explained the origins of the term “geek,” how so many of them, once destined to be marginalized outcasts, were using technology to alter their fates, change their destinies, build a new culture.
From "Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho" by Jon Katz
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After coming to power in 1979, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini promised to “preserve” the bazaar and blamed the deposed shah of Iran for marginalizing the traditional market, parts of which are some 2,000 years old.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 22, 2026
Men worthy of the word don’t depend for their self-esteem on the crushing and marginalizing of Others.
From Salon ● Nov. 4, 2024
Yoon dismissed such a notion, saying “the trilateral cooperation harbors no intention of marginalizing any particular nation or establishing an exclusive coalition.”
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 16, 2023
In his eagerness to honor undersung performers, he winds up marginalizing them all over again.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 20, 2022
It was a small-minded and ludicrous insult, sure, but his mocking of my intellect, his marginalizing of my young self, carried with it a larger dismissiveness.
From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama
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