relegate
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Forest have six games left as they look to beat the drop - potentially helping to relegate Tottenham for the first time since 1977 in the process.
From BBC ● Apr. 16, 2026
"And the US threatens to relegate the organisation to even greater irrelevance if it doesn't get what it wants," she told AFP.
From Barron's ● Mar. 27, 2026
In recent days, Musk has reiterated his Sci-Fi Socialism ideals that AI and robots will relegate work to being optional.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 7, 2025
What Skipper’s team has a chance to do Saturday might relegate those wins to fine print in his memoir.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 24, 2025
I wasn’t going to relegate our love to the creeping pace of the postal service.
From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama
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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
"We're not doing anything illegal. We act according to the law. As for being scared, fear mustn't prevail. I believe in what I'm doing. And this conviction relegates fear to second place."
From BBC ● Jan. 31, 2024
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
He discards the idea that we lose virility when we cease to kill, and relegates the notion to the limbo of deceits.
From The Holy Earth by L. H. (Liberty Hyde) Bailey
It risks sanctions ranging from being stripped of its titles to being relegated from the league.
From Barron's ● Oct. 1, 2026
After the eight-point reinstatement but with the 19-point penalty still in place, the Foxes are 17 points behind Essex and will be relegated if their appeal is unsuccessful.
From BBC ● Sep. 28, 2026
That could also happen through a points penalty so severe they would effectively be relegated.
From BBC ● Sep. 25, 2026
But many of these vehicles have been relegated to driveways and garages due to the challenge of passing a smog check.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 17, 2026
At lunch he’ll be relegated to my table.
From "Boy21" by Matthew Quick
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Sweeping contentious issues under the rug and relegating them to wanton aggravation is one major way of letting these same topics fester.
From Salon ● Apr. 3, 2026
There’s something to be said for the virtue of relegating important works to a period of obscurity to turbo-charge the excitement of rediscovery.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 30, 2025
The crown jewels of the arcade industry, they occupy the building's first two floors, relegating video games to the basement and upper levels.
From Barron's ● Dec. 26, 2025
The move was nearly unprecedented; for years, royal councils had made most of the decisions of government, relegating Louis to being, Mr. Hardman tells us, a king “buried in the crown.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 31, 2025
One could gradually see this new formation relegating to the shadow of the past the old spirit of independence, and stifling the confused aspirations of the country towards any legal liberties.
From Louis XIV and La Grande Mademoiselle 1652-1693 by Arvede Barine
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