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  • And for me, that was the final and truly unbearable tragedy: Like all the innumerable dead, he'd once and for all been demoted from haunted to haunter.†  (source)
  • After going wacko at the groundbreaking ceremony, Chuck E. Muckle got demoted to the post of assistant junior vice-president.†  (source)
  • In this double demotion the old giants have become pigmies while you were looking the other way.†  (source)
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  • They've demoted him from Chief Warlock on the Wizengamot — that's the Wizard High Court — and they're talking about taking away his Order of Merlin, First Class, too.'†  (source)
  • "That's a demotion," Mindy said.†  (source)
    standard suffix: The suffix "-tion", converts a verb into a noun that denotes the action or result of the verb. Typically, there is a slight change in the ending of the root verb, as in action, education, and observation.
  • If you choose to demote me to an inferior post as a result of my failure, I hope I may accept it with grace.†  (source)
  • There was, as yet, no official temple in Ors—these are all primarily dedicated to Amaat, any other gods on the premises take lesser places, and the head priest of Ikkt had not seen her way clear to demoting her god in its own temple, or identifying Ikkt with Amaat closely enough to add Radchaai rites to her own.†  (source)
  • As a rule I took pleasure in stepping up and smiling back in her teeth—but in the stern hall lights I felt clammy and used-up, demoted somehow.†  (source)
  • Is that a demotion or a promotion?†  (source)
  • Kevin, I think we'd better demote me.†  (source)
  • I heard myself strangely demoting our men to the more helpless boys.†  (source)
  • Two of them were older than I was, but not a lot older; one of them was even demoted to my grade—I don't remember which one; I don't even remember which sex.†  (source)
  • She told me I should feel lucky I got a demotion instead of being suspended from the squad.†  (source)
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