relegate
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“The U.S. now accepts China as a strategic rival and peer versus a country they can try to relegate and control.”
From Barron's • May 15, 2026
This means we relegate ourselves to relying on the goodwill of physicians like Craven and piecemeal grant funding to uncover new uses and facilitate their adoption.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 13, 2026
Before the show, the singer told the Jerusalem Post he was determined to concentrate on the music and relegate any criticisms to "background noise".
From BBC • May 12, 2026
But restoring it was a recognition of an undeniable fact: the future belongs to streaming, so why relegate a familiar and respected brand name to the waning cable box?
From Los Angeles Times • May 16, 2025
Had the arrangement been otherwise, we would use base eight or base twelve arithmetic and relegate base ten to the New Math.
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
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