relegate
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"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
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
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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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
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 does not provoke discussion by denying or combating them; he merely relegates them to a secondary position.
From Matthew Arnold by George William Erskine Russell
Thanks to the quirks of the accounting rules, those losses don’t appear on Boeing’s income statement and instead are relegated to footnotes about the acquisition.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 3, 2026
As an organizational psychologist, I’m convinced that Mark’s existential angst is not unique, nor is it relegated to content creators.
From Salon ● Aug. 30, 2026
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
Leicester, relegated to League One for just the second time in their history last season, will start their latest campaign in the third tier under head coach Russell Martin at Notts County on Saturday.
From BBC ● Aug. 13, 2026
The war, relegated to the attic of bad memories, was momentarily recalled with the popping of champagne bottles.
From "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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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
Cerebras inscribed the memory directly on to the wafer rather than relegating it to distant chips and chiplets in high-bandwidth memory mazes.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 3, 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
He began considering his own future again, relegating the girl to the background.
From 'Doc.' Gordon by Frank T. (Frank Thayer) Merrill
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