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marginalization
[ mahr-juh-nl-ahy-zey-shuhn ]
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.
˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins
Origin of marginalization1
Example Sentences
“Broken Horses†shares a title with her memoir and confronts her upbringing and the marginalization she’s faced throughout her life.
Many Americans are already in survival mode because of extreme economic precarity and other forms of marginalization.
Inequality and marginalization are major factors blocking patient access to reliable, comprehensible and trustworthy information about how to protect themselves and their loved ones.
Black women especially carry that burden and pain from the double marginalization of gender and race in America — and their roles as leaders in the long Black Freedom Struggle.
Hawaii's Native population also similarly faced cultural decimation and social and economic marginalization as Puerto Rico after the U.S. staged a coup in 1893 against the sovereign country and annexed Hawaii in 1898.
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