How to Use marginalize in a Sentence

marginalize

verb
  • The program helps people from marginalized groups.
  • She’s been sort of marginalized in this town as sort of the bad seed.
    — Rebecca Angel Baer, Southern Living, 12 Sep. 2024
  • Add to that, marginalizing the right to life.
    — CBS News, 31 May 2026
  • The marginalized find their way to the spotlight and walk tall in it.
    — Nicholas Goodly, Them, 5 Oct. 2024
  • And their impact has been marginalized.
    — Joe Battenfeld, Boston Herald, 18 June 2026
  • So the former may stick in minds while the latter is marginalized.
    — Armando Salguero Outkick, FOXNews.com, 6 May 2026
  • 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
  • This is especially true for those of us who are marginalized in some way.
    — Rachel Dlugatch, Longreads, 18 July 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
  • That voice is much more marginalized today than in the past among Muslims.
    — Aysha Khan, Houston Chronicle, 16 June 2018
  • One of the fastest, easiest ways to marginalize someone is to talk over them.
    — Andrea Hill, Forbes, 18 Apr. 2021
  • This is a time where people that have been abused or marginalized are coming forward.
    — Julia Moore, People.com, 16 Dec. 2024
  • This is a time where people that have been abused or marginalized are coming forward.
    — Abby Stern, PEOPLE.com, 21 Jan. 2018
  • There’s a lot of resonance there right now for anyone who is marginalized.
    — Matt Donnelly, Variety, 26 Nov. 2024
  • 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
  • People who are marginalized know that there's no such thing as a safe space, not really.
    — Jessica Valenti, Marie Claire, 24 May 2017
  • Women who are marginalized by their class, by their race, by their ability, by their age.
    — Rebecca Nelson, Cosmopolitan, 29 Jan. 2018
  • 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
  • Trump’s rhetoric marginalizes these groups and further emboldens the fringe.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 2 Aug. 2019
  • That's going to cause frontline workers and marginalized people to be at a lot more risk.
    — Judy Stone, Forbes, 1 Mar. 2024
  • Women who are marginalized, poor or disabled will, as ever, be the ones to suffer the most.
    — Samantha Leac, Glamour, 14 May 2019
  • The show insists on showing how the marginalized upend the neat stories we’ve been fed.
    — Jerry Saltz, Vulture, 19 Sep. 2025
  • We have been marginalized from the very beginning, and that has consequences.
    — James Brooks, Anchorage Daily News, 30 June 2019
  • Maybe in that series, those marginalized secondary agents would get to be characters.
    — Daniel Fienberg, HollywoodReporter, 18 June 2026
  • His exile, rather than marginalizing him, gave him the rare platform from which to speak forthrightly.
    — Daniel Immerwahr, New Yorker, 4 Aug. 2025
  • And then lastly, just marginalizing the right to life, which has always been at the center of our movement.
    — NBC news, 31 May 2026
  • And there is no one with Buckley’s clout to marginalize the new generation.
    — Jonathan Chait, Daily Intelligencer, 24 Oct. 2017
  • 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
  • Asch also made Folkways a home for the expression of the marginalized.
    — Chris Klimek, Smithsonian Magazine, 16 June 2023
  • 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

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