trivial
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Most of these alterations are trivial, although one major change, coming near the end, is a very bad idea.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 6, 2026
Instead, sales of these “single-premium immediate annuities” are trivial: just $4 billion in the second quarter, according to insurance-industry trade association Limra.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 31, 2026
I know from my decades of work in public health—including at the nation’s largest health department and public hospital system—how often communication is treated as a final, trivial step.
From Slate ● Aug. 27, 2026
Whether trivial or urgent, she argues, questions are central to our well-being.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 4, 2026
Sister Miriam Joseph* categorizes the relation of the trivial arts as follows: logic is concerned with the thing-as-it-is-known; grammar is concerned with the thing-as-it-is-symbolized; rhetoric is concerned with the thing-as-it-is-communicated.
From "Words Like Loaded Pistols" by Sam Leith
Vocabulary lists containing trivial
Essential Academic Vocabulary for High School Students, List 2
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