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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
Thus far, Arsenal’s excellent form has relegated the injuries to a subplot.
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James McNicholas, New York Times, 9 Nov. 2025
And that feeling of attachment, as Friedman sees it, is not relegated to vintage.
—Paige Reddinger, Robb Report, 8 Nov. 2025
In the wake of those bills, the far-right Tea Party movement helped harden Republican opposition to Obama and Democrats more broadly, and Democrats saw major losses in the 2010 midterm elections that relegated Democrats to the minority and ended Pelosi's first run as speaker.
—NPR, 6 Nov. 2025
In May 2024, SANIL announced a corporate restructuring that elevated Brown to CEO and relegated Belzer to a largely ceremonial role as co-chairman.
—Daniel Libit, Sportico.com, 30 Oct. 2025
Having lost his fancy Mecha Man suit and relegated to the role of a desk jockey assigning other heroes to duty, he’s stripped down to his bare form.
—Christopher Cruz, Rolling Stone, 30 Oct. 2025
In the mayoral race between Zohran Mamdani and Andrew Cuomo, Adams was relegated to an afterthought, an object of ridicule and scorn.
—Molly Ball, Time, 29 Oct. 2025
The Super Bowl-winning quarterback spent the 2024 season with the Pittsburgh Steelers before joining the Giants, with which he was relegated to a backup role after just three games.
—Chantz Martin, FOXNews.com, 29 Oct. 2025
Lewis returned to the lineup against the Bills and Mays retained the starting center job, so Corbett was relegated to backup work.
—Mike Kaye, Charlotte Observer, 27 Oct. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for relegated
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Vladimir Lenin in Russia, Ho Chi Minh in Vietnam, and Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini in Iran all spent more than 15 years in exile before returning to lead revolutions that toppled the regimes that had banished them.—
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One of the most painful parts of this show remains seeing people who are so good at being on television banished from our screens.—
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In 2019, officers went to the home twice while their son Nick was living there — once for a call coded as a welfare check and once for a call classified as mental health–related.—
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The Justice Department issued a warrant to seize the ship over its sanctions violations for transporting oil on behalf of Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, which is classified as a Foreign Terrorist Organization by the State Department.—
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Like, part of committing to that kind of vocation is to be taken away, to be exiled, to be on the outside, to be alienated, and how often that happens.—
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Being exiled far from their families and communities imposes a sense of isolation on the prisoners' sudden freedom after decades living behind bars.—
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Massachusetts, New York, Alabama and Mississippi also ranked near the bottom.—
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The Knights ranked second in the Big 12 last season in kickoffs, thanks to Noe Ruelas.—
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Most people deported to Tapachula are not from southern Mexico, said Ivana Saldivar, who heads the Tapachula office of the United Nations' International Organization for Migration.—
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That comment had been recorded by Von when a fan told him her friend got deported and asked him to record a message.—
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Competitive sections for features, documentaries, and shorts each comprise 16 titles, while retrospectives, restorations, and regional premieres are grouped into three out-of-competition strands of 24 films.—
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Sixteen years ago, food scientists in Brazil created a new system called Nova, which grouped foods into four ascending health categories based on processing.—
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Reset offers three tiers of rooms, distinguished by their outdoor layouts (all patios feature a firepit, but only some have the outdoor tub), bed size (queen or king), and view (mountain view versus interior-facing).—
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Tarr's reputation for films tinged with misery and hard-heartedness, distinguished by black-and-white cinematography and unusually long sequences, only grew throughout the 1990s and 2000s, particularly after his 1994 film Sátántangó.—
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In a world of wifi and streaming, give me the reels of film that have to be carefully placed and changed.—
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The Cake Wedding cake orders are often placed later in the wedding planning process, sometimes just three weeks before the event, and can cost $540 on average, according to the Knot.—
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“Relegated.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/relegated. Accessed 13 Jan. 2026.
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