trivialize
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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
I don’t mean to trivialize it, but his specialty in comedy was improv.
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 29, 2024
"It saddens us that someone with his reach and status would seem to trivialize the incident that led to such an outcome and heap further pain and suffering upon the family and friends of Anthony."
From BBC • Nov. 30, 2023
“And petitioner’s persistent attempts to equate this case with Brown trivialize the grievous legal and moral wrongs of segregation.”
From New York Times • Oct. 30, 2022
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
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