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as in banished
to force to leave a country
courtiers and generals who incurred the emperor's disfavor were soon relegated to the farther reaches of the empire
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as in classified
to arrange or assign according to type
some psychologists argue that the syndrome should be relegated to a different class of autism
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Recent Examples of relegated
City were relegated in 1996 and 2001 but wasn’t bought by its wealthy Abu Dhabi owners until 2008.
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Joe Prince-Wright, NBC news, 13 Mar. 2026
Smith was the team’s starter for 29 games before he was relegated to the bench for his final two seasons.
—Antwan Staley, New York Daily News, 13 Mar. 2026
In Naples, Italy, the past isn’t relegated to what’s behind us.
—Robert Abele, Los Angeles Times, 13 Mar. 2026
The fans are, understandably, venting their frustration at the prospect of Spurs being relegated for the first time since 1977.
—Jay Harris, New York Times, 12 Mar. 2026
Rolapp described a near future in which the current 38-event PGA Tour schedule will be consolidated into 21 to 26 Tier 1 tournaments and unspecified others will be relegated to Tier 2 tournament status.
—Brad Townsend, Dallas Morning News, 11 Mar. 2026
The human’s task was relegated to pumping a foot pedal to create the pneumatic pressure that drove the automaton.
—Adam Ozimek, The Atlantic, 11 Mar. 2026
With not a lot of airtime to transition her protagonist from reasonable to out of touch with reality, Jonas relegated much of her character’s contemplative qualities to the asides and exaggerated her more base characteristics by adding in some reckless behavior.
—Elaina Patton, IndieWire, 6 Mar. 2026
The other molecules — hundreds of them — have been shelved, untested and relegated for now to the supplementary data sections of journal articles.
—Henry Skinner, STAT, 5 Mar. 2026
Joe Prince-Wright, NBC news, 13 Mar. 2026
Smith was the team’s starter for 29 games before he was relegated to the bench for his final two seasons.
—Antwan Staley, New York Daily News, 13 Mar. 2026
In Naples, Italy, the past isn’t relegated to what’s behind us.
—Robert Abele, Los Angeles Times, 13 Mar. 2026
The fans are, understandably, venting their frustration at the prospect of Spurs being relegated for the first time since 1977.
—Jay Harris, New York Times, 12 Mar. 2026
Rolapp described a near future in which the current 38-event PGA Tour schedule will be consolidated into 21 to 26 Tier 1 tournaments and unspecified others will be relegated to Tier 2 tournament status.
—Brad Townsend, Dallas Morning News, 11 Mar. 2026
The human’s task was relegated to pumping a foot pedal to create the pneumatic pressure that drove the automaton.
—Adam Ozimek, The Atlantic, 11 Mar. 2026
With not a lot of airtime to transition her protagonist from reasonable to out of touch with reality, Jonas relegated much of her character’s contemplative qualities to the asides and exaggerated her more base characteristics by adding in some reckless behavior.
—Elaina Patton, IndieWire, 6 Mar. 2026
The other molecules — hundreds of them — have been shelved, untested and relegated for now to the supplementary data sections of journal articles.
—Henry Skinner, STAT, 5 Mar. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for relegated
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The arguments about whether or not the drug peddlers should be banished becomes the central narrative thread.—
Murtada Elfadl,
Variety,
13 Mar. 2026
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Russell Crowe, 'Gladiator’ (2001) Crowe's Roman warrior Maximus, a general banished to slavery thanks to a petulant young emperor (Joaquin Phoenix) who rises back to glory, is a throwback to old-school Hollywood action heroes that still works.—
Brian Truitt,
USA Today,
9 Mar. 2026
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No arrest has been made, but police classified the offense as first or second-degree murder in the police report.—
Charlotte Observer,
Charlotte Observer,
11 Mar. 2026
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Kaprizov classified the play as lucky.—
Jess Myers,
Twin Cities,
11 Mar. 2026
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The protesters included secular left-wingers and nationalists as well as Islamists, but Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, a fundamentalist cleric at that time exiled in France, emerged as the movement's undisputed figurehead.—
The Week UK,
TheWeek,
8 Mar. 2026
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Most of them have been jailed or exiled or arrested or even killed.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
8 Mar. 2026
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Of that trio, Hill, a submariner who ranked second last season in induced groundball rate (48 percent) among relievers, is likely to see immediate action.—
Johnny Flores Jr,
New York Times,
13 Mar. 2026
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Haiti was included for the first time and was ranked as one of the countries with the least press freedom in the Americas.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
12 Mar. 2026
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In September, 95 members of Congress requested a full accounting from the DHS of how many active DACA recipients had been detained or deported since January 2025, including where and when those arrests occurred.—
Gregory Royal Pratt,
Chicago Tribune,
15 Mar. 2026
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The Office of Homeland Security Statistics is responsible for publishing figures from Homeland Security agencies, including removals and the nationalities of those deported, to provide a comprehensive picture of immigration trends at the border and inside the United States.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
15 Mar. 2026
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Teams are then grouped by quad – Quad 1 teams are the best in the country, on down.—
Dana O’Neil,
CNN Money,
12 Mar. 2026
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Unlike previous years in which attendees raised a hand and asked their questions one by one, this year the questions were submitted in writing and grouped by topic — such as budget, public safety and infrastructure — to be answered by category.—
Ashley Mackin Solomon,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
6 Mar. 2026
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Today, membership in the Academy is by invitation of the 55-person Board of Governors, the governing body of the Academy, and is limited to those who have distinguished themselves in the motion picture industry.—
Kurt Snibbe,
Oc Register,
14 Mar. 2026
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Harold Pollack is the Helen Ross distinguished service professor at the Crown Family School of Social Work, Policy, and Practice at the University of Chicago.—
Michael Frerichs,
Chicago Tribune,
12 Mar. 2026
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When the system was placed into milk samples containing sakacin P, the bacteria responded and generated a detectable electrical signal within a few hours.—
Neetika Walter,
Interesting Engineering,
14 Mar. 2026
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In past years, a biological decontamination unit was placed in the area and military-grade drones flew overhead.—
Hannah Fry,
Los Angeles Times,
13 Mar. 2026
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“Relegated.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/relegated. Accessed 17 Mar. 2026.
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