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She likes to relegate difficult questions to her colleagues. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
I've decided that the word relegate is too boring on its own and needs the 'ma' to spice things up a bit. From Wordnik.com. [Soccer Blogs - latest posts] Reference
Rainy nights relegate Mathieson to routine inspections. From Wordnik.com. [Summertime keeps D.C. alcoholic beverage control investigator on her toes] Reference
That's going to relegate Charlotte to local traffic only. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Nov 19, 2006] Reference
FREEMAN: You ` re going to relegate my history to a month?. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Dec 19, 2005] Reference
The point is to relegate it to the same niche that Mac has. From Wordnik.com. [Verizon Droid Is The Real Deal] Reference
Something could relegate those issues to the margins tomorrow. From Wordnik.com. [16 Ideas for the Planet] Reference
But this does not relegate these civilized nations to savagism. From Wordnik.com. [The Prehistoric World; or, Vanished races] Reference
New York does not even relegate this emblem to the top of the column. From Wordnik.com. [Woman Suffrage By Federal Constitutional Amendment] Reference
MORGAN FREEMAN, ACTOR: You're going to relegate my history to a month?. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Dec 16, 2005] Reference
So I think you will have to relegate Go-Go to the past, with no disrespect. From Wordnik.com. [Pet Peeve]
But I was able to relegate those to IFOs, identified flying objects, pretty soon. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Feb 6, 2007] Reference
Why relegate such things to merely the weekend and dismiss five whole other days?. From Wordnik.com. [We love you Kristen, oh yes we do.] Reference
Keep Tzaritza out of the house and relegate the Sultana to the servant's quarters?. From Wordnik.com. [Peggy Stewart at School] Reference
It ` s sheer madness, Joe, that you can relegate the level of a felony conviction. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Aug 7, 2007] Reference
But there's something troubling in the rush to relegate recent history to ancient history. From Wordnik.com. [Politics On Fast Forward] Reference
The object here is obviously to relegate the Bhulia to the same impure status as the Ganda. From Wordnik.com. [The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India Volume II] Reference
He has a rival in the field whose exploits will soon relegate him into comparative obscurity. From Wordnik.com. [The Motor Pirate] Reference
SOLEDAD O'BRIEN: I mean whether to relegate it to the gossip pages or put it on the front page?. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Apr 11, 2006] Reference
Travel: And a Bed for My DogNo need to relegate your pooch to a kennel anymore when you go on holiday. From Wordnik.com. [The Good Life] Reference
This doubt alone could explain the corps 'decision to relegate the units to the backwaters of the war zone. From Wordnik.com. [Integration of the Armed Forces, 1940-1965] Reference
That you can relegate them into this user-friendly little partition and say, well, they ` re just burglars. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Aug 7, 2007] Reference
Every other faith has gone through this same experience and we can't relegate women into the shadows any more. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Apr 17, 2005] Reference
As to the time of the erection of these stones, we both agreed to relegate the matter to the mists of antiquity. From Wordnik.com. [From John O'Groats to Land's End] Reference
KING: We're going to have to do a whole show on this because it's too important to just relegate to one segment. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jun 28, 2006] Reference
It is customary in reading other documents than the N.T. instantly to relegate the miraculous to the domain of legend. From Wordnik.com. [The Life of Jesus of Nazareth] Reference
Well, how can you sort of relegate him to the side and then expect him to protect you when you're sort of denying him?. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Sep 28, 2001] Reference
There are many religious groups everywhere that relegate women to strange or invisible corners of "heaven" (and earth). From Wordnik.com. [Letters] Reference
Weigh the value of every detail introduced into a lead and cut out the unnecessary ones; relegate them to the rest of the story. From Wordnik.com. [Newspaper Reporting and Correspondence A Manual for Reporters, Correspondents, and Students of Newspaper Writing] Reference
Swamped with casework, the municipal authorities tended to relegate crimes of property to the bottom of their overworked agendas. From Wordnik.com. [Trouble Magnet]
So you have to relegate that concept to the (UNINTELLIGIBLE) of your mind and try and try and (UNINTELLIGIBLE) whether it is genuine. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Oct 10, 2002] Reference
The underlying motive of the "reformists" when they claim non-Socialist reforms as their own, and relegate practically all distinctively. From Wordnik.com. [Socialism As It Is A Survey of The World-Wide Revolutionary Movement] Reference
She was going to forget Justin Halliday — or if not forget him, at least relegate him to a far corner of her memory where he belonged. From Wordnik.com. [Snow Angels]
And yet, only hours earlier, a sport prosecutor had asked judges to relegate some of Italy's best-known football clubs to lower divisions. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jul 4, 2006] Reference
He had once been somewhat shaken by the dicta of the modern philosophers who relegate human love to the plane of an illness or an appetite. From Wordnik.com. [The Invader A Novel] Reference
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