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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of marginalise.

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Examples

  • These people have become marginalised from the police and the police from them precisely because spotty faced accountants and politicians demanding value for money and accountability can only see what can be measured-as a result because police officers only now meet MOPs who are a “threat” - either physically health wise or complaint wise that we are seeing this bunker mentality start to develop.

    Another Day At The Office « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG Inspector Gadget 2009

  • Does this then, paradoxically, entirely invalidate any such attempts to undermine institutionalised, religiously-validated homophobia within marginalised culture by acts of sacrilege, rendering them automatically illegitimate as cultural appropriation?

    Archive 2006-09-01 Hal Duncan 2006

  • Does this then, paradoxically, entirely invalidate any such attempts to undermine institutionalised, religiously-validated homophobia within marginalised culture by acts of sacrilege, rendering them automatically illegitimate as cultural appropriation?

    The Power and the Piss Hal Duncan 2006

  • Listen to the bigots and you'll find that this is a central refrain, the idea that the marginalised are attempting to institute privileges as "rights" and deny these same "rights" to the poor old white straight male.

    More on Cultural Appropriation Hal Duncan 2006

  • MEC for Sport, Arts and Culture Sonwabile Mancotywa said sport was "a healer of wounds, an integrator of a so-called marginalised youth, a creator of jobs, booster of a national image".

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1997

  • These include the restoration of the culture of teaching and learning in our schools, and the reintegration of the so-called marginalised youth into the mainstream of society.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1995

  • These include the restoration of the culture of teaching and learning in our schools, and the reintegration of the so-called marginalised youth into the mainstream of society.

    SPEECH BY PRESIDENT NELSON MANDELA, ON THE OCCASION OF THE REPUBLIC OF SOUTH AFRICA PRESIDENT'S SPORTS AWARDS FUNCTION 1995

  • For some days, the BBC has been telling us in sepulchral tones that we are "isolated" and "marginalised" - as if a decision had been taken to abandon us in our misty island like a bunch of woad-painted savages.

    Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph Boris Johnson 2011

  • For some days, the BBC has been telling us in sepulchral tones that we are "isolated" and "marginalised" - as if a decision had been taken to abandon us in our misty island like a bunch of woad-painted savages.

    Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph Boris Johnson 2011

  • Though criticism has been described as a marginalised activity, it unfailingly unravels the beauty of poetry, language, and research and teaching cannot be possible without it.

    The Hindu - Front Page 2010

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