1
as in minor
lacking importance
why spend so much time on trivial decisions, like whether the soda should be regular or diet?
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2
as in slight
so small or unimportant as to warrant little or no attention
figured that restaurant customers wouldn't notice such a trivial surcharge on their bill
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Recent Examples of trivial
The Trump administration has not released details on the layoffs, but the cuts appear to be more than trivial.
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Nicholas Florko, The Atlantic, 20 Feb. 2025
If the effortless enslavement of men was the idea, or one of the ideas (and who had a better idea?), why halve your chances by something as trivial as a poor shopping decision?
—Rachel Cusk, Harper's Magazine, 19 Feb. 2025
Given this, there is no straightforward way to understand what a model is doing on an intuitive level, as from our perspective running inference on a model is nothing more than executing trillions of trivial operations such as addition and multiplication.
—Rahul Gudise, Forbes, 7 Mar. 2025
And figuring out that amount was not a trivial task.
—Jayson Stewart, IEEE Spectrum, 5 Mar. 2025
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Nicholas Florko, The Atlantic, 20 Feb. 2025
If the effortless enslavement of men was the idea, or one of the ideas (and who had a better idea?), why halve your chances by something as trivial as a poor shopping decision?
—Rachel Cusk, Harper's Magazine, 19 Feb. 2025
Given this, there is no straightforward way to understand what a model is doing on an intuitive level, as from our perspective running inference on a model is nothing more than executing trillions of trivial operations such as addition and multiplication.
—Rahul Gudise, Forbes, 7 Mar. 2025
And figuring out that amount was not a trivial task.
—Jayson Stewart, IEEE Spectrum, 5 Mar. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for trivial
Adjective
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Aftershocks are typically minor adjustments along the portion of a fault that slipped at the time of the initial earthquake.—
William B. Davis,
New York Times,
28 Mar. 2025
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Three other family members, two children and one 19-year-old, suffered minor wounds.—
Robert A. Cronkleton,
Kansas City Star,
27 Mar. 2025
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Instead of the pants flowing to the ground, Davis opted to tuck the hem of her pants into her black pointed-toe boots with a slight heel.—
Julia Teti,
Footwear News,
1 Apr. 2025
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Good Night and Good Luck, starring George Clooney, was the highest grossing show on Broadway again last week, even as its grosses took a slight dip.—
Caitlin Huston,
HollywoodReporter,
1 Apr. 2025
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The Liberals' smallest lead was in a poll conducted by Innovative Research among 1,548 Canadian citizens, which showed the party with a lead of just 2 points, on 36 percent to the Conservatives' 34 percent—a lead within the poll's 3 percent margin of error.—
Paul Du Quenoy,
MSNBC Newsweek,
27 Mar. 2025
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In a display of gallows humor at the sloppiness of the leaders’ theoretically clandestine communication, people online quickly turned those symbols into memes, and renamed their own chats Houthi PC small group.—
Kyle Chayka,
The New Yorker,
26 Mar. 2025
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According to expert estimates, India needs to spend around $100 billion per year, or 2.8% of current nominal GDP, to achieve net-zero power sector emissions by 2070.—
Radhika Kak, independent researcher at Harvard Business School and Varad Pande, partner at BCG,
CNBC,
20 Mar. 2025
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Here’s why: Although technical specifications are still being worked out, the new standard could deliver nominal peak data rates of more than 40Gbps.—
PCMAG,
PCMAG,
20 Mar. 2025
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Governed by a growth mindset devoted to the logic of disruption, moving fast and breaking things, a flourishing structure of feeling about AI and art history has sprung up on the grounds of very little AI-and-art-history to have feelings about.—
Sonja Drimmer,
Artforum,
1 Apr. 2025
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Instead Doom: The Dark Ages is flatly colored, with little contrast, and less visually interesting enemies that tote around cruel looking shields simply for the sake of the setting.—
Kazuma Hashimoto,
Rolling Stone,
31 Mar. 2025
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Gangs stop petty thievery in their own neighborhoods.—
Walter E Block,
Orange County Register,
22 Mar. 2025
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Mixed in with small pleasures and petty disputes with her older sister are true feats of survival and bravery.—
Lynette Rice,
Deadline,
22 Mar. 2025
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To those who don’t yet own an EV, a robust infrastructure may seem unimportant.—
Wally Rippel,
IEEE Spectrum,
4 Mar. 2025
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Saying that facts are constructed through social processes is not the same as saying facts are unimportant or made up.—
Jacob Hale Russell,
TIME,
4 Mar. 2025
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His drunk mother-in-law, Nan (Jane Curtin), takes too long to share too much insignificant information.—
Ben Travers,
IndieWire,
20 Mar. 2025
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No matter how insignificant our individual choices may appear, our choices matter.—
Cornelia C. Walther,
Forbes,
17 Mar. 2025
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“Trivial.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/trivial. Accessed 4 Apr. 2025.
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