downplay
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"Downplay their fears but be realistic," says Prof Cartwright-Hilton.
From BBC • Mar. 19, 2020
Downplay the Bollywood, had been the message to the organisers, the Indian-American Community Foundation, from the prime ministerial office in Delhi.
From BBC • Sep. 28, 2014
Downplay the "Gay," and the same subtitle works for "Tiny Kushner," a suite of five short plays that, with an epic cumulative effect, tap into five distinct veins of American craziness.
From Seattle Times • Sep. 27, 2012
"Downplay," for example, is jettisoned by Novelist Peter De Vries: "If I heard a speaker use it I would upget and outwalk."
From Time Magazine Archive
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