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marginalize

[mahr-juh-nl-ahyz] / ˈmɑr dʒə nlˌaɪz /
VERB
exclude from dominant culture
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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

“The heart and mission of the CSU is to create an inclusive and welcoming place for everyone we serve, not to marginalize one community over another.”

From Los Angeles Times May 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.)

But the four-team model severely marginalizes really good teams that deserve better.

From Washington Times Dec. 4, 2023

The summit is a “missed opportunity” and marginalizes communities and workers that are most affected by AI, more than 100 civil society groups and experts said in an open letter to Sunak.

From Seattle Times Oct. 30, 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

The group recommends a "gender-affirming" and "nonjudgmental approach that helps children feel safe in a society that too often marginalizes or stigmatizes those seen as different."

From Salon Mar. 13, 2023

Most importantly perhaps, how can I incorporate music into a curriculum that marginalizes the arts?

From "Music and the Child" by Natalie Sarrazin

But it was largely what Parton did and said outside the recording studio and film set that made her such an inspiring and beloved figure, especially in communities that had been overlooked, marginalized or demonized.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 26, 2026

Women had little real power in Nashville at the time, and though rural women were a growing part of the country music audience, they were marginalized as artists.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 25, 2026

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

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

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

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

And his supporters say portraying all Russian citizens as aggressors merely helps to perpetuate Mr. Putin’s rule by marginalizing his opponents.

From New York Times Dec. 6, 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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