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relegated

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Phonetic (Standard)IPA

adjective

sent or consigned to a lower position, place, or condition:
Over time, after the people’s uprising, reports of human rights violations became a relegated segment of evening news.
(of a task or other matter) consigned or committed to someone to take care of:
Besides these relegated duties that the Chair performs on behalf of the committee, the Chair is also expected to keep abreast of new regulatory trends.

Selma becomes a biopic in which the hero shines while those who worked beside him are overlooked or relegated to the sidelines.

ESPN's SportsNation compiled a Derek Jeter dating diamond, and Mariah Carey and Jessica Alba were relegated to the outfield.

By the 1940s, the box had disappeared from the show circuit entirely and was relegated to the rumor mill.

We basically are relegated to being varying degrees of “bad” in project after project.

He relegated his vice president, meanwhile, to a group of “some hardworking, effective…people around me…and I love them to death.”

In order to keep the page free from footnotes and references these are relegated to an appendix following each chapter.

Even when a separation had been effected his tormentor persecuted him still, until she was relegated to a madhouse.

The library set, its antique bookcases and desks curling up toward the ceiling, must be relegated to the attic.

A small detail which, in the calculation of the shrewd Pope, had been relegated to comparative unimportance.

It was clumsy and unwieldy and was soon relegated to its place among the failures of previous experiments.

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