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relegate
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  • Two minutes before, I hadn't even wanted to celebrate, but now I was feeling dejected and insulted at being relegated to a midweek dinner at the same place we always went to.  (source)
  • Old friendships, tucked away like treasures, relegated to tokens of yesterday.  (source)
    relegated = assign to a less important position
  • He claimed that the responsibility for a decision could never be abandoned to a blind agency but could only be relegated to human decisions more and more remote from their consequences.  (source)
    relegated = assigned
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  • When she was little and her second-grade class was making necktie cards for Father's Day, she was relegated to sitting in the corner with the girl whose dad had died prematurely at age forty-two of cancer.  (source)
    relegated = assigned to a less important position or classification
  • Segregation ... ends up relegating persons to the status of things.  (source)
    relegating = assigning to a less important classification
  • I thought of going to the kitchen, but I often cut herbs at the long table near the hearth, and I did not see why I should relegate myself.†  (source)
  • ...relegates women to roles that are little more than servants and...  (source)
    relegates = assigns to a less important position or classification
  • I think she never taught Isabelle how to cook because she was afraid that if she did, Isabelle would be relegated to the kitchen permanently.  (source)
    relegated = assigned to a less important position or classification
  • As the psychologist Timothy D. Wilson writes in his book Strangers to Ourselves: "The mind operates most efficiently by relegating a good deal of high-level, sophisticated thinking to the unconscious, just as a modern jetliner is able to fly on automatic pilot with little or no input from the human, 'conscious' pilot.†  (source)
    relegating = assigning to a less important position or classification
  • Unable to attract a national distributor, the Shooting Gallery had no choice but to relegate Marley's movie debut to that most ignoble of celluloid fates.†  (source)
  • To be a lamppost and stand holding a lantern till dawn-which is the only work your world relegates me to and the only work it's going to get.†  (source)
    relegates = assigns to a less important position or classification
  • It was true that Ms. Richter often solicited David's opinion while Max was relegated to the role of silent spectator.  (source)
    relegated = assigned to a less important position
  • As for relegating it to the realm of fiction, that charge had to be dropped.†  (source)
    relegating = assigning to a less important position or classification
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