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triviality

[triv-ee-al-i-tee] / ˌtrɪv iˈæl ɪ ti /




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Some of her patients apologized for the seeming triviality of their traumas compared with the horrors she survived.

From The Wall Street Journal May 14, 2026

“The era’s descriptors of femininity — sweetness, triviality, softness and indulgence — all became associated with chocolate,” CNN’s Casey Barber wrote.

From Salon Feb. 17, 2025

He also took aim at the newspaper articles submitted as evidence of illicit newsgathering, saying they offered a "breathtaking level of triviality".

From BBC May 12, 2023

Waters tackled big topics: “Time,” “Money,” war, the inevitability of death, the triviality of daily life, the importance of seizing the moment.

From New York Times Feb. 28, 2023

Helen Burns asked some slight question about her work of Miss Smith, was chidden for the triviality of the inquiry, returned to her place, and smiled at me as she again went by.

From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë

All that matters in this moment is one of life's most edifying trivialities: snooker.

From BBC Apr. 20, 2026

Still, it would be hard to find another writer who brings Ms. Gaul’s particular strengths to what could have been merely esoteric culinary-history trivialities.

From The Wall Street Journal Oct. 24, 2025

He sounded quite irritated that they were asking him about such trivialities when he is the one who has world leaders quaking in their boots as he re-makes the whole world in his image.

From Salon Feb. 19, 2025

An answer comes, indirectly, from the diary of Inge Jansen, the socialite wife of an NSB official: She didn’t mention the events at all, recording only her lunch engagements and other trivialities.

From Washington Post Mar. 1, 2023

The centaur had a tendency to go completely hyper over trivialities.

From "Artemis Fowl" by Eoin Colfer




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