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relegate
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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
  • That evening the story had been relegated to the bottom of page one:  (source)
  • Segregation ... ends up relegating persons to the status of things.  (source)
    relegating = assigning to a less important classification
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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
  • 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
  • ...relegates women to roles that are little more than servants and...  (source)
    relegates = assigns to a less important position or classification
  • Because of the organizational difficulties it entailed, he had been forced to relegate his erotic activities to a narrow strip of time (between the operating room and home) which, though he had used it intensively (as a mountain farmer tills his narrow plot for all it is worth), was nothing like the sixteen hours that now had suddenly been bestowed on him.†  (source)
  • ...for the most part she relegated Henry Chao to a kind of netherworld, in which he was not so much a person and potential threat as a spirit that could be scared off by a good loud noise.  (source)
    relegated = assigned to a less important position or classification
  • As for relegating it to the realm of fiction, that charge had to be dropped.†  (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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • Hudnall changed Tom's plans somewhat by relegating him to watch camp that day, while he went out with the other men.†  (source)
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