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marginalization

[ mahr-juh-nl-ahy-zey-shuhn ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

noun

the act of placing a person or thing in a position of lesser importance, influence, or power; the state of being placed in such a position:
The social marginalization of overweight adolescents may further reduce their self-esteem and increase depression.

Around half the Baluch in the province are unemployed, a result, say rights groups, of longstanding marginalization by Tehran.

“Words of condemnation and marginalization were avoided,” he says.

So, what kind of redress might work best for this specific expression of Sunni marginalization and dispossession?

He was trying to end the marginalization of black people in Detroit.

Suffice to say that marginalization and McCarthyite attacks occur from both the left and the right of the political spectrum.

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