relegate
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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
"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
They would rather relegate Robyn to “cringe” status.
From Salon ● Jan. 10, 2026
If it were down to me, though, I would relegate Wolves now and just chop them out of the league.
From BBC ● Dec. 29, 2025
Aditya looked reproachful in these later sketches, his eyes beckoning the artist to stay with him for just a while longer, to not forget, to not relegate him to these empty pages.
From "When Dimple Met Rishi" by Sandhya Menon
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Still, workers clearly have some time before AI relegates them to the permanent underclass.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 4, 2026
In my opinion that all but relegates Wolves now.
From BBC ● Oct. 26, 2025
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
The move relegates Miller Moss to a reserve role after nine uneven starts this season.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 5, 2024
Even if it were true, it contains nothing whatever in the nature of explanation: it recognises the inexplicable, and relegates it to the atoms, where it seems to hope that further quest may cease.
From Life and Matter A Criticism of Professor Haeckel's 'Riddle of the Universe' by Sir Oliver Lodge
One case relegated to the slow lane involves a unit of the global consulting firm Accenture, some of the people said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 2026
The belief that promoted sides that stayed up in their first season are often relegated in their second is a popular one, with the phrase 'second-season syndrome' regularly thrown about.
From BBC ● Aug. 13, 2026
Sullivan had already been the subject of intense fan abuse for his running of the club, who were relegated to the Championship last season for the first time since 2011.
From BBC ● Aug. 7, 2026
They were one of only three teams to fail to win a match during this spell, along with relegated Burnley and Wolves.
From BBC ● Aug. 3, 2026
Her hunger for earth, the cloc-cloc of her parents' bones, the impatience of her blood as it faced Pietro Crespi's passivity were relegated to the attic of her memory.
From "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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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
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
And there I go, relegating the white-ball team to a second-tier status.
From BBC ● Feb. 27, 2025
No self-respecting kennels would tolerate him, I assure you, for all the relegating to them we humans might choose to indulge in.
From A Woman's Burden by Fergus Hume
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