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triviality

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




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As editor of the A-hed, the offbeat story that’s been a fixture since 1941, I specialize in triviality.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 17, 2026

You expect a terse “fine,” so you may proceed to some other triviality like sports or the weather.

From Salon ● Sep. 1, 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

The pangrams from yesterday’s Spelling Bee were triviality, trivially, and virality.

From New York Times ● Dec. 3, 2022

Every question Saget threw at him, he tossed aside, as if it were a triviality.

From "Outliers" by Malcolm Gladwell

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

We talk a while longer, making peace with trivialities.

From "Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti" by Frances Temple




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