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Robinson started at first base for the Brooklyn Dodgers on April 15, 1947, beginning the end of the racial segregation that had relegated Black players to the Negro Leagues for decades.

From Seattle Times • Apr. 15, 2024

Brunner wrote that the majority ruling had relegated the court’s constitutional role “to little more than a two-bit player in furthering the delay already embedded in the history of this case.”

From Washington Times • Nov. 28, 2023

Like the ANC, Buthelezi was critical of white minority rule, which had relegated Zulus and other Black South African nations to downsized 'homelands'.

From Reuters • Sep. 16, 2023

It was the second year in a row that Oxnard had relegated its tamale party to a to-go format due to COVID-19.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 5, 2021

Common-form invitations had reached him from time to time through his agent, but, after the first, he had relegated them unread to the waste-paper basket.

From The Education of Eric Lane by McKenna, Stephen