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- verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
trivialize .
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Examples
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This title trivializes the work of climate scientists the world over.
The Seattle Times 2010
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Indeed, Blaustein trivializes those problems Faulkner identifies by diminishing them to our "daily personal problems" and by implying that fiction aims to teach us how to resolve "those political issues of our communities and our country."
Social Fiction 2007
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But while quirkiness may describe the man himself, the word trivializes his evil actions.
PERISCOPE 2008
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I also praise every person in our military who has the cajones, no, that word trivializes it … i praise every person in our military who has had the patriotism and courage to stand up for the rest of us.
Think Progress » Fox News Slams Colbert: ‘Inappropriate,’ ‘Over the Line,’ ‘Not Very Funny’ 2006
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Who at Verizon, we're wondering, is going to make the call on what "trivializes" these events?
Ars Technica Matthew Lasar 2010
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That's one of many things it left me wondering: Did Whicker actually think Dugard wanted to be filled in on what happened in the sports world over the last 18 years? heelsonthefield: "I don't think writing about something in a sports context" trivializes "it at all."
unknown title 2009
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But I think the term “scheduling issues” kind of trivializes what they’re fighting for.
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I detailed a 1999 incident where he shut-down a FOX sitcom because he felt it "trivializes" the slave experience."
Mfume: Dems Must Diversify Tickets Nathaniel Livingston 2006
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To do so trivializes addiction, including sex addiction.
Stanton Peele: Why Anthony Weiner Is Not a Sex Addict Stanton Peele 2011
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To do so trivializes addiction, including sex addiction.
Stanton Peele: Why Anthony Weiner Is Not a Sex Addict Stanton Peele 2011
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