How to Use marginalize in a Sentence

marginalize

verb
  • The program helps people from marginalized groups.
  • Others will see their best skills marginalized on offense.
    Rob Mahoney, SI.com, 6 July 2019
  • 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
  • Trump’s rhetoric marginalizes these groups and further emboldens the fringe.
    San Diego Union-Tribune, 2 Aug. 2019
  • But these people, who are marginalized on the edges of society, go largely unchampioned.
    Esther J. Cepeda, The Mercury News, 5 July 2019
  • Most of society simply ignores those people, further marginalizing them.
    Dr. Sanjay Gupta, CNN, 6 Aug. 2019
  • Our tribe and centuries-old culture has been reduced, marginalized, and assimilated to the point of near disappearance.
    Lona Running Wolf and Tyson Running Wolf, TIME, 22 Sep. 2024
  • Women of color say their resilience was honed through learning to be themselves while facing an academic culture that frequently marginalized them.
    Charles L. Welch, Forbes, 26 Sep. 2024
  • You mock inclusive language presumably because you have never been excluded or marginalized by gendered language.
    Letters To The Editor, The Mercury News, 28 July 2019
  • That no communities, especially our poor and too-often marginalized and ignored communities, are left out.
    Roy S. Johnson | Rjohnson@al.com, al.com, 21 July 2019
  • More diverse voices in Congress would help ensure equal resources through laws and legislation that help marginalized communities.
    High School Journalism Institute, oregonlive.com, 19 July 2019
  • And there are worries that even casual, offhand comments can desensitize people to prejudiced tropes that can marginalize and demonize Jews.
    Todd Spangler, Detroit Free Press, 11 July 2019
  • Opponents of development, meanwhile, have been increasingly marginalized in Kaktovik — and have turned elsewhere for help.
    Author: Nat Herz, Anchorage Daily News, 31 July 2019
  • She’s been sort of marginalized in this town as sort of the bad seed.
    Rebecca Angel Baer, Southern Living, 12 Sep. 2024
  • 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
  • Asch also made Folkways a home for the expression of the marginalized.
    Chris Klimek, Smithsonian Magazine, 16 June 2023
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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

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