How to Use marginalize in a Sentence
marginalize
verb- The program helps people from marginalized groups.
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The marginalized find their way to the spotlight and walk tall in it.
— Nicholas Goodly, Them, 5 Oct. 2024 -
She’s been sort of marginalized in this town as sort of the bad seed.
— Rebecca Angel Baer, Southern Living, 12 Sep. 2024 -
The club teams have marginalized the high school programs.
— oregonlive.com, 7 June 2019 -
In a movie centered on the marginalized, Yo-Yo is the lowest on the totem pole.
— Helena Andrews-Dyer, Washington Post, 14 July 2023 -
But for the writers who've long been marginalized, the fight doesn't end with a fair contract.
— Alanna Bennett, refinery29.com, 6 June 2023 -
The little man is marginalized and the big man is desperate to be a part of his world.
— Morgan Jerkins, Longreads, 13 Sep. 2019 -
So the lyrics of the song speak to that anxiety that marginalized folks live with every day of their life.
— Chris Willman, Variety, 18 June 2024 -
One of the fastest, easiest ways to marginalize someone is to talk over them.
— Andrea Hill, Forbes, 18 Apr. 2021 -
If you are marginalized by society, there’s no room on this Earth that can keep you out.
— Fariha Róisín, Bon Appétit, 17 June 2019 -
Asch also made Folkways a home for the expression of the marginalized.
— Chris Klimek, Smithsonian Magazine, 16 June 2023 -
Candidates who once would have been marginalized in this country were on the stage both nights.
— Amy Davidson Sorkin, The New Yorker, 30 June 2019 -
Women who are marginalized, poor or disabled will, as ever, be the ones to suffer the most.
— Samantha Leac, Glamour, 14 May 2019 -
Some argue that the hard right needs to be marginalized, as was the case for more than a half-century after World War II.
— Jason Horowitz, New York Times, 9 July 2023 -
This is especially true for those of us who are marginalized in some way.
— Rachel Dlugatch, Longreads, 18 July 2023 -
That's going to cause frontline workers and marginalized people to be at a lot more risk.
— Judy Stone, Forbes, 1 Mar. 2024 -
Trump’s rhetoric marginalizes these groups and further emboldens the fringe.
— San Diego Union-Tribune, 2 Aug. 2019 -
We have been marginalized from the very beginning, and that has consequences.
— James Brooks, Anchorage Daily News, 30 June 2019 -
More needs to be done to help a group that's been marginalized and had to endure systemic inequality for far too long.
— Kimanzi Constable, Parents, 22 Jan. 2024 -
This is an attempt to punish, shame, and marginalize women.
— ELLE, 22 Apr. 2023 -
Sykes lost his radio show and is now among the embittered, marginalized refugees at the anti-Trump Bulwark.
— Peter Spiliakos, National Review, 28 Aug. 2019 -
Others will see their best skills marginalized on offense.
— Rob Mahoney, SI.com, 6 July 2019 -
In the history of the mafia movie genre, female characters have been marginalized, a blurred figure in the background.
— Manuela Santacatterina, The Hollywood Reporter, 11 Jan. 2024 -
On its own, many fans with blind loyalty to the program would try to marginalize the account of Johnson-Koulianos.
— Dan Wolken, USA TODAY, 9 June 2020 -
His claim says the team marginalized and blackballed him, stalling a career that had been on track to land him a job as a general manager.
— Greg Moore, The Arizona Republic, 4 Apr. 2023 -
The sect had once ruled Yemen for centuries but was marginalized under the Sunni regime that came to power after a 1962 civil war.
— Louis Casiano, Fox News, 20 Dec. 2023 -
The poll finds that Black adults worry they are marginalized and under threat by acts of hate and discrimination in their day-to-day lives.
— Scott Clement, Washington Post, 16 June 2023 -
There is this idea that Palestinians would not allow themselves to be marginalized from the process of deciding the fate of their homeland.
— Emily Bazelon, New York Times, 20 Nov. 2023 -
One of the spaces where that debate can emerge, especially among those who are marginalized or less able to speak within the media, is the street.
— Jennifer Billock, Smithsonian Magazine, 24 Apr. 2020 -
Shifting the onus more toward the fossil fuel industry (which rakes in hundreds of billions in profits) would lighten the burden marginalized communities and ratepayers shoulder, Tejada said.
— Ryan Fonseca, Los Angeles Times, 3 Oct. 2024
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