How to Use marginalize in a Sentence

marginalize

verb
Definition of marginalizenext
  • The program helps people from marginalized groups.
  • 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
  • That voice is much more marginalized today than in the past among Muslims.
    — Aysha Khan, Houston Chronicle, 16 June 2018
  • Lananna has been marginalized, The board is back in control.
    — Ken Goe, OregonLive.com, 21 Feb. 2018
  • 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
  • The first Wednesday in February has been marginalized a bit.
    — Bill Landis, cleveland.com, 6 Feb. 2018
  • That marginalizes the only power Democrats have left — to challenge the status quo.
    — Sun Sentinel Editorial Board, Sun Sentinel, 20 Nov. 2024
  • 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
  • This is a time where people that have been abused or marginalized are coming forward.
    — Julia Moore, People.com, 16 Dec. 2024
  • That's going to cause frontline workers and marginalized people to be at a lot more risk.
    — Judy Stone, Forbes, 1 Mar. 2024
  • There’s a lot of resonance there right now for anyone who is marginalized.
    — Matt Donnelly, Variety, 26 Nov. 2024
  • Blount may be gone, but Clement proved himself too good a real-life player to marginalize.
    — Michael Beller, SI.com, 10 July 2018
  • Trump’s rhetoric marginalizes these groups and further emboldens the fringe.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 2 Aug. 2019
  • People who have long been marginalized and othered for having curves no longer feel the need to contort themselves to fit in.
    — Shammara Lawrence, Teen Vogue, 14 Nov. 2018
  • 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
  • Anyone who may be marginalized based on gender, such as women, trans and nonbinary people, can apply.
    — Abigail Lee, Variety, 23 Jan. 2025
  • Boykin’s remarks highlight a stark tension: the question of whether participating in such an event constitutes an endorsement of Trump’s policies—policies that have historically vilified and marginalized Black people.
    — Shelby Stewart, Essence, 20 Jan. 2025

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