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
One idea is to relegate certain demanding workloads to superconductors, which conduct electricity with zero resistance and produce almost no heat.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 4, 2026
There is no option other than to relegate herself to this turmoil.
From Salon ● Oct. 9, 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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The resignation relegates the party to the third-largest group at Holyrood, with one member fewer than Labour.
From BBC ● Oct. 19, 2026
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
The move relegates Miller Moss to a reserve role after nine uneven starts this season.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 5, 2024
Spencer, equally discarding the supernatural as matter of knowledge, relegates the distinctively religious emotion to awe before a supreme power wholly inscrutable to man.
From The Chief End of Man by George Spring Merriam
Burnley had earned a reputation as the archetypal yo-yo club - relegated from or promoted to the top division in each of the past five seasons.
From BBC ● Oct. 29, 2026
Parachute payments are paid to clubs relegated from the Premier League to help them adjust to the financial realities of the second tier - £48m in year one, then £39m in year two,
From BBC ● Oct. 29, 2026
Every October, societal outcasts and weirdos relegated to the underground are permitted passage back into the mainstream.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 28, 2026
Second, it marks a solid finale for a genre largely relegated to streaming, because for some odd reason, film executives don’t understand how powerful a collective romantic experience outside your living room can be.
From Salon ● Oct. 26, 2026
She doesn’t mean to be cruel, she doesn’t know she’s just relegated me to the dust heap along with crank telephones and whalebone stays.
From "Cat's Eye" by Margaret Atwood
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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
There was a resultant concern that relegating Lyon would put Ligue 1 at disadvantage in terms of its global pull.
From BBC ● Jul. 11, 2025
While working on the project, she realized there are few depictions of boys and young men whose story is anchored in love, rather than relegating love to a side plot.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 9, 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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