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- verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
relegate .
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Examples
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Sometimes it's applied to separate realms, ones that are partly or fully, temporarily or permanently, inaccessible to us; in this sense, the word relegates ours to membership in a large, perhaps infinitely large, collection.
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The employment system relegates then to menial jobs.
Paul Kleyman: Tough Loving the NYTimes #2: Japan's 'Generational Roadblock'
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I was hopeful such an election would translate into changes in the education system that routinely relegates poor black and brown students to lives upon a conveyor belt of chaos and confusion, where the American Dream is an elusive nightmare.
Mike Green: Investing in America's Growing Assets: Minorities
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The investigator relegates the formal qualities of literature to the "merely literary," but then approaches works of imagination as if those formal qualities don't exist at all, don't have the effect of bending and conditioning meaning beyond any useful paraphrase.
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I was hopeful such an election would translate into changes in the education system that routinely relegates poor black and brown students to lives upon a conveyor belt of chaos and confusion, where the American Dream is an elusive nightmare.
Mike Green: Investing in America's Growing Assets: Minorities
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The employment system relegates then to menial jobs.
Paul Kleyman: Tough Loving the NYTimes #2: Japan's 'Generational Roadblock'
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The employment system relegates then to menial jobs.
Paul Kleyman: Tough Loving the NYTimes #2: Japan's 'Generational Roadblock'
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But Canada's political system relegates many expensive government services handled elsewhere by federal governments—such as education, social services and health care—to provincial governments.
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The employment system relegates then to menial jobs.
Paul Kleyman: Tough Loving the NYTimes #2: Japan's 'Generational Roadblock'
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His decision also relegates the U.S. to continued reliance on oil from volatile nations in the Middle East, where unrest, chaos and Iran's threats to block the oil supply moving through the Strait of Hormuz are driving gas prices ever closer to $4 a gallon.
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