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

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

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