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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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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
With a fast-enough internet connection, streaming 60 frames of HD (or even 4K) video to your laptop or phone can be a trivial task.
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Eric Ravenscraft, WIRED, 27 Oct. 2024
But echoes like this are trivial compared to the more obvious areas of overlap between Sorkin’s oeuvre and Saturday Night.
—Hershal Pandya, Vulture, 8 Oct. 2024
Seemingly small or trivial accuracy improvements could actually play a crucial role when applied in extreme, emergency settings.
—Mack Degeurin, Popular Science, 13 Nov. 2024
What might feel like trivial small talk is actually an invitation for connection.
—Mark Travers, Forbes, 27 Oct. 2024
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Eric Ravenscraft, WIRED, 27 Oct. 2024
But echoes like this are trivial compared to the more obvious areas of overlap between Sorkin’s oeuvre and Saturday Night.
—Hershal Pandya, Vulture, 8 Oct. 2024
Seemingly small or trivial accuracy improvements could actually play a crucial role when applied in extreme, emergency settings.
—Mack Degeurin, Popular Science, 13 Nov. 2024
What might feel like trivial small talk is actually an invitation for connection.
—Mark Travers, Forbes, 27 Oct. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for trivial
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Next to the rivers of food that flood the modern appetite, risotto is a minor tributary.Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 16 Dec. 2024
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Areas that are low-lying, already wet or have poor drainage could be at a risk for minor flooding depending on how heavy the rain is this week.Remington Miller, arkansasonline.com, 16 Dec. 2024
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Marcello Hernández turns in an excellent performance as Soto, but overall, there is a slight disjointedness to this cold open, even while resurrecting an iconic character.Rosa Escandon, Forbes, 8 Dec. 2024
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Although the slippers looked nearly identical, a consultant for the Smithsonian analyzed slight differences in the pairs and determined that the ones that were sold on Saturday were in many of the most famous scenes of the movie.Hank Sanders, New York Times, 8 Dec. 2024
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Its economy is smaller than Vermont’s, and its military consists of three hundred volunteers.Elizabeth Kolbert, The New Yorker, 14 Dec. 2024
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Many were small, but if the thunderstorm coincided with Santa Ana winds, the gusts could blow embers into the canyons, spreading the conflagration rapidly.Noah Haggerty, Los Angeles Times, 14 Dec. 2024
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The result of the shift could be a real deal of the century: an abatement of the multipronged conflicts raging in the Middle East, a political horizon and reconstruction for the Palestinians and the Lebanese, and some nominal concessions from Tehran on its nuclear program and regional malfeasance.Suzanne Maloney, Foreign Affairs, 10 Dec. 2024
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Assad retained nominal control of much of the country with Russian, Iranian and Hezbollah assistance.Victoria Beaule, ABC News, 8 Dec. 2024
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Bieber assumes little, to no risk in the agreement.Bernie Pleskoff, Forbes, 7 Dec. 2024
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In the Midwest, ground blizzards develop with little or no new snowfall.Jalen Williams, Detroit Free Press, 7 Dec. 2024
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My understanding has always been that the relic trade is loosely tolerated by the powers that be (many of whom have some pretty choice relics of their own), because one of the sneakiest ways authoritarian societies thrive is by letting their subjects get away with petty rebellions.Noel Murray, Vulture, 13 Dec. 2024
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As our profile lays out, the record reveals Billy Wagner as a blustery, bigger-than-life figure who engaged in petty crime and coached his family to do the same.Patricia Gallagher Newberry, The Enquirer, 12 Dec. 2024
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This might be tactical language, or propaganda, or unimportant.Anne Applebaum, The Atlantic, 8 Dec. 2024
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Detractors often consider the beauty industry and those who build their careers in it, as unimportant in the grand scheme things.CT Jones, Rolling Stone, 27 Nov. 2024
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The air concentrations of VOCs found in some candle studies have been insignificant when compared with levels previously deemed unsafe.Kristen Rogers, CNN, 29 Nov. 2024
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In fairness, the aid to families is not insignificant.Bridget Grumet, Austin American-Statesman, 22 Nov. 2024
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“Trivial.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/trivial. Accessed 22 Dec. 2024.
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