marginalize
verb (used with object)
to place in a position of minor or marginal importance, significance, relevance, or effect.
had marginalized
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past perfectof marginalize.past perfect
Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
Example Sentences
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For his part, Martin felt Justice Department leaders had marginalized him, people familiar with his thinking said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 2, 2026
South Korean men acknowledge benefiting from a patriarchal culture that had marginalized women.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 1, 2022
He embraces the genre uninhibitedly, as if asserting an artistic restoration in the name of heroes, Ray and Fuller, whom the industry at large had marginalized a decade earlier.
From The New Yorker ● Sep. 3, 2015
“They had marginalized him,” Ms. Savino said, using the word a second time as Mr. Smith, betraying no emotion, looked on from the defense table.
From New York Times ● Jun. 5, 2014
One of his complaints in The Image was that the democratization of culture had marginalized older art forms that could no longer satisfy a larger public as fully as the new ones did.
From Newsweek ● Dec. 12, 2009
