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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
marginalize . - adjective Subject to
marginalization
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Examples
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In the entire world of cinema, to think that your film was somehow "marginalized" is myopic at best.
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What would be awesome, although it again places the burden on the marginalized, is to have outreach & programs prior to and at the event (as was suggested in the other post).
Burning Man and the Indigenous Community. - Feministing 2009
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At the core of the situation and reaction as presented is an assumption that these children will forever remain marginalized, poor, and unable to have any interaction with technology devices or tools of economic empowerment.
Advisor: Was it cruel to let poor kids in India play with my iPod? Boing Boing 2009
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The fact that GW skeptics are marginalized is less of a function of their position being in the minority, and more to do with their position being completely at odds with reality.
Matthew Yglesias » Cato’s David Boaz Joins George Will in Peddling Bogus “Global Cooling” Stories 2009
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At the core of the situation and reaction as presented is an assumption that these children will forever remain marginalized, poor, and unable to have any interaction with technology devices or tools of economic empowerment.
Advisor: Was it cruel to let poor kids in India play with my iPod? Boing Boing 2009
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But even as the deal was announced, officials in the group were expressing disappointment at what some described as a marginalized role - a potentially troubling sign for the United States as it moves toward the planned withdrawal of all of its forces by the end of 2011.
Sunni group walks out of Iraq parliament Leila Fadel 2010
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But even as the deal was announced, officials in the group were expressing disappointment at what some described as a marginalized role - a potentially troubling sign for the United States as it moves toward the planned withdrawal of all of its forces by the end of 2011.
Sunni group walks out of Iraq parliament Leila Fadel 2010
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A sustainable revolution should not take place in marginalized regions of the world but in high density urban regions where small gains in efficiency multiplied millions of times translate into large cuts in energy use.
ECO EWOK TREEHOUSES: Finca Bellavista Rainforest Village | Inhabitat 2008
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In general, historians tend to portray Somerset's rise to power as logically inevitable and to cast Mary as a marginalized from the jockeying for political position that took place amongst the executor-councilors during the first two months of Edward VI's reign. 11 Hindsight makes it easy to forget that the political situation taking shape after Henry's death in late January 1547 initially appeared unstable.
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If Obama wins he'll serve out his senate term marginalized as the Dems will boot him and the Republicans will have used him up and have no further use for him either.
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