trivialize

We don’t want to hear commencement speeches about how we cannot outrun AI domination because they trivialize the work we have done ourselves.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 4, 2026

I don’t think that is a huge movement — to trivialize — as much as to say, “Hey, we should actually fight it where it is, fight it where the problems are.”

From Salon ● Oct. 25, 2024

And while its intensity and dedication is easy to dismiss or trivialize, its rise has reshaped how we view — and, by extension, the power of — a TV genre that’s typically not taken seriously.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 18, 2023

“We don’t want to trivialize what he said but we did have to acknowledge that he had made strides to better himself.”

From Seattle Times ● Jan. 10, 2023

Not to understand this is to misunderstand the public uses of schooling and to trivialize the nature of intimate life—a family’s ‘language.’

From "Hunger of Memory" by Richard Rodriguez

Kercher’s sister, Stephanie Kercher, told the BBC this week that Knox’s show trivializes the murder of her sister in Perugia, where the two women were students almost two decades ago.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 7, 2026

Meme-driven AI content that trivializes conflict as it spreads misinformation is increasingly crowding out reality on digital platforms, in what ISD researchers call the "Legofication" of war propaganda.

From Barron's ● Apr. 2, 2026

Others scoff that calling it a slur trivializes real oppression.

From Slate ● Aug. 31, 2025

The author repeatedly says his goal is not "equating" the men—as "it trivializes Hitler's obscene crimes to compare them to Trump's often pathetic foibles."

From Salon ● Aug. 22, 2023

Although there may be some truth in both hypotheses, this sort of posthumous off-the-rack psychoanalysis is a dubious, highly speculative enterprise that inevitably demeans and trivializes the absent analysand.

From "Into the Wild" by Jon Krakauer

The issue has been trivialized to the point of being "presented as a form of therapy", argued Trudo Lemmens, a health law professor at the University of Toronto.

From Barron's ● Feb. 25, 2026

Cobb didn’t find much to read about menopause, beyond shoddy research and medical tracts which trivialized or pathologized what she knew to be a natural phase of life.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 7, 2026

Popular culture traps us in the privatized universe of celebrity culture, urging us to define ourselves through the often empty and trivialized and highly individualized interests of celebrities.

From Salon ● Feb. 25, 2025

"And I feel like for so long, PMS has been mocked and kind of trivialized, and people don't really take it seriously."

From BBC ● Aug. 12, 2024

She said I had trivialized the issue and if I thought it was outdated I was living with my head in the sand.

From "The Handmaid's Tale" by Margaret Atwood

It’s not trivializing this summit or missing the point, I would argue, to understand it as first and foremost a semiotic spectacle, conducted through language, symbols and signifiers.

From Salon ● May 17, 2026

Some Chinese commentators have warned against trivializing the war for the sake of reaching new audiences.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 27, 2025

It’s trivializing what you think money and class is, which led to this one, “Upper Classy.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 22, 2025

Barbara Walters, the woman blamed for trivializing TV news, commented: “I rest my case.”

From Washington Post ● Dec. 30, 2022

It is not the dangerous knowledge which must be avoided, but it is the trivializing influence of a steady contact with things which are not worth knowing.

From The Photoplay A Psychological Study by Hugo Münsterberg