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- verb Present participle of
downplay .
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Examples
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Meanwhile the SPLC has gone record time and time again downplaying the strength of Mexican racist groups like MECha and the extreme Aztlan.
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So perhaps we shouldn't be surprised that he's yet again downplaying the seriousness.
01/14/2006 2006
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That's all I'm worried about, '' said coach Dennis Erickson, in downplaying the suggestion of a moral victory.
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The press has either been hoodwinked on this score or has been complicit in downplaying this aspect of their handiwork.
Balkinization 2006
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But he had come too far in downplaying his Jewish origins to take up the collective fate of the Jews as his chief concern.
Fatherland 2004
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But he had come too far in downplaying his Jewish origins to take up the collective fate of the Jews as his chief concern.
Fatherland 2004
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"I don't recall downplaying civilian casualties," Casey told reporters.
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"I don't recall downplaying civilian casualties," Gen Casey told reporters.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2010
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"I don't recall downplaying civilian casualties," Casey told reporters.
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One surprising consensus was the idea of downplaying federal support of home ownership in favor of rental housing.
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