relegates

Example Sentences

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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

Accordingly, in his examination of the Tempest and King Lear, he pays most attention to the characters, and relegates to a short closing paragraph his criticism of the development of the action.

From Eighteenth Century Essays on Shakespeare by Smith, David Nichol