demoted

In science a theory is a framework that connects facts, it can't be demoted to a hypothesis nor can it become a law.

After you're demoted or passed over, there's really no good reason to put in high levels of effort.

Painting as a means to convey meaning from an artist to his audience has been similarly demoted because there are better ways to capture what you have seen.

Having those displays (mostly) demoted from politics to sport has been a huge cultural victory for the older EU members.

Let's say that you take a new job and things are going well, but you're demoted at the 6-month mark.

He was demoted out of management -- lost his corner office, budget, secretary, and 55 subordinates.

You're not new here, so you probably already know this, but when HN users flag a story, the story gets demoted.

Yes, dang sometimes comments about whether posts were demoted by them or by user-flags.

The guy who walked me out the door was immediately demoted out of management.

Instead of mentoring him to work better with others, his boss demoted him.

I find the hypocrisy especially interesting given that a few years they demoted Chrome for breaking a paid link rule.

Maybe nowadays car will be demoted to semimobile, or Human Driven Car.

For example, Google compiled a list of comparison-shopping sites and “demoted them from the top 10 web results,” staff wrote.

The problem is in most orgs, the roles for people who fight fires in production tend to be demoted to a lowly "support" title, and paid/hired for accordingly, which is really not commensurate with the value they provide to the organization.

Famously, /r/technology was demoted (removed from "default" status, meaning you see it when you're not logged in, meaning it's visible to the majority of Reddit's users) after it came out that they had a bot removing submissions with certain words in the title.