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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

DR: We certainly do not want to give off the impression that we tolerate any bit of misinformation or harmful content or trivialize the impact it has, especially to those people that it does affect.

From Salon ● Oct. 25, 2024

She’s worried that these trending videos may trivialize the profession and those searching for pain relief.

From New York Times ● Jun. 19, 2024

“I expressed my concerns at the end of June because delinquents had used video game habits to trivialize the violence on social networks,” he said.

From Seattle Times ● Sep. 17, 2023

Visual analysis can help us to appreciate the beauty of a masterpiece, but we must be careful not to use a formulaic approach that would trivialize it.

From "History of Art, Volume 1" by H.W. Janson

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

But critics say pairing it with footage of deportations trivializes a serious and often traumatic process.

From Salon ● Aug. 2, 2025

It trivializes the experiences of those who are medication non-responsive, unstable, underemployed, or simply overwhelmed.

From Slate ● Mar. 30, 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

"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

The hashtag #NoBarbenheimer trended in Japan amid criticism that the meme trivialized the devastation and long-lasting impact of the 1945 atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 8, 2023

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

Perhaps we’re just as responsible for trivializing the show’s subject matter as the show itself.

From Salon ● Sep. 26, 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

Hogan, “Hogan’s Heroes” ran from 1965-71 on CBS but was criticized for trivializing World War II and turning the Nazis into lovable cartoons.

From Seattle Times ● May 28, 2024

Some film critics, including The Times’ Justin Chang, argued that Nolan didn’t want to reduce the atomic bombings of Japan to a trivializing, exploitative spectacle.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 9, 2023

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