trivialize
verb
triv·i·al·ize
ˈtri-vē-ə-ˌlīz 
trivialized; trivializing
: to make trivial : reduce to triviality
Examples of trivialize in a Sentence
The news story trivialized the problem.
He is trivializing the situation.
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Some have said the film, which follows a Mexican drug cartel leader who fakes their death and undergoes a gender transition to become a woman named Emilia Pérez, who then starts a nonprofit to help identify bodies of people killed by drug cartels, trivializes the issue of drug cartel violence.
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Conor Murray, Forbes, 22 Jan. 2025
These concepts normalize and trivialize allegations of serious misconduct.
—Zack Sharf, Variety, 8 Jan. 2025
And when the Adams character recovers her premarital creativity as an artist, Heller inadvertently trivializes her gallery show with a brief, piddling montage of making dead-animal taxidermy and painting Alex Katz–style portraits of her pregnant friends.
—Armond White, National Review, 13 Dec. 2024
In interviews, female patients said they felt patronized or trivialized by male health care providers at some point in their TMJ treatment, if not throughout.
—Tribune News Service, Boston Herald, 25 Apr. 2024
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Conor Murray, Forbes, 22 Jan. 2025
These concepts normalize and trivialize allegations of serious misconduct.
—Zack Sharf, Variety, 8 Jan. 2025
And when the Adams character recovers her premarital creativity as an artist, Heller inadvertently trivializes her gallery show with a brief, piddling montage of making dead-animal taxidermy and painting Alex Katz–style portraits of her pregnant friends.
—Armond White, National Review, 13 Dec. 2024
In interviews, female patients said they felt patronized or trivialized by male health care providers at some point in their TMJ treatment, if not throughout.
—Tribune News Service, Boston Herald, 25 Apr. 2024
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“Trivialize.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/trivialize. Accessed 30 Jan. 2025.
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