Example Sentences

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The crown jewels of the arcade industry, they occupy the building's first two floors, relegating video games to the basement and upper levels.

From Barron's • Dec. 26, 2025

Cerebras inscribed the memory directly on to the wafer rather than relegating it to distant chips and chiplets in high-bandwidth memory mazes.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 3, 2025

There was a resultant concern that relegating Lyon would put Ligue 1 at disadvantage in terms of its global pull.

From BBC • Jul. 11, 2025

While working on the project, she realized there are few depictions of boys and young men whose story is anchored in love, rather than relegating love to a side plot.

From Los Angeles Times • May 9, 2025

In deposing or relegating to a lower rank a crowd of totems and fetishes and ancestral ghosts, he inherited the legends of their exploits.

From Myth, Ritual And Religion, Vol. 2 (of 2) by Lang, Andrew