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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

She honored those traces even as she ironically nailed their indefensible triviality.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 27, 2024

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

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

There are constant trivialities about how handsome Hunter looks in a suit and exchanges of “I love you” between the couple.

From Washington Post ● Jun. 14, 2022

Janet was fairly sure that Reiki was Japanese, Wicca was British, and yoga came from a different kind of Indian, but her mother had no time for such trivialities.

From "Legendary Frybread Drive-In" by Cynthia Leitich Smith


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