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marginalize

 verb
     
mar‧gin‧al‧ize also marginalise British English [transitive]
to make a person or a group of people unimportant and powerless in an unfair way:
Female employees complained of being marginalized by management.
—marginalized adjective
—marginalization noun [uncountable]
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