relegate
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“The U.S. now accepts China as a strategic rival and peer versus a country they can try to relegate and control.”
From Barron's • May 15, 2026
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
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
Don’t relegate it to a cheese plate or a passing sprinkle on a salad.
From Salon • May 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
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