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Or I could stay by my children's side, relegating another generation to the same misery and poverty I knew so well. (source)relegating = assigning to a lesser position
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That evening the story had been relegated to the bottom of page one: (source)relegated = assigned to a less important position
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The little stove no longer occupied a central place; it had been relegated to a tiny spot in the corner of the room. (source)relegated = assigned to a less important position or classification
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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)
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Old friendships, tucked away like treasures, relegated to tokens of yesterday. (source)relegated = assign to a less important position
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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
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Segregation ... ends up relegating persons to the status of things. (source)relegating = assigning to a less important classification
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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)
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...relegates women to roles that are little more than servants and... (source)relegates = assigns to a less important position or classification
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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
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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
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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)
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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
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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
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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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