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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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That assessment could have been applied to other reality-TV judges, on shows such as America’s Next Top Model, The Apprentice, The Biggest Loser—and there’s no shortage of clips in which a host excoriates a young participant over something trivial.
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Hannah Giorgis, The Atlantic, 15 Oct. 2024
The difference between the two possible approaches to the first Fed rate cut since 2020 may sound trivial, Paul Davidson reports.
—Daniel De Visé, USA TODAY, 18 Sep. 2024
Are patients being put at risk? Jan. 3, 2020
Screening someone for esophageal cancer is not a trivial procedure.
—Karen Kaplan, Los Angeles Times, 16 Sep. 2024
This doesn’t mean characters can’t engage in seemingly mundane conversations — but even the most trivial exchange should be laden with subtext or contribute to the story’s atmosphere.
—Jd Barker, Rolling Stone, 10 Oct. 2024
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Hannah Giorgis, The Atlantic, 15 Oct. 2024
The difference between the two possible approaches to the first Fed rate cut since 2020 may sound trivial, Paul Davidson reports.
—Daniel De Visé, USA TODAY, 18 Sep. 2024
Are patients being put at risk? Jan. 3, 2020
Screening someone for esophageal cancer is not a trivial procedure.
—Karen Kaplan, Los Angeles Times, 16 Sep. 2024
This doesn’t mean characters can’t engage in seemingly mundane conversations — but even the most trivial exchange should be laden with subtext or contribute to the story’s atmosphere.
—Jd Barker, Rolling Stone, 10 Oct. 2024
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Over a decade later, the streaming space is filled with entries from major and minor media companies alike.Bruce Gil, Quartz, 8 Nov. 2024
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Walman is dealing with a minor upper-body injury incurred in the first period of Saturday’s 3-2 loss to the Vancouver Canucks.Curtis Pashelka, The Mercury News, 5 Nov. 2024
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There are slight differences in their unsaturated and saturated fat content and their sodium and potassium concentrations.Isabel Vasquez RD LDN, Health, 2 Nov. 2024
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Even the slightest outperformance by Trump across the battlegrounds would see him back in the White House with comparative ease.Niall Stanage, The Hill, 2 Nov. 2024
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Researchers trained rats to jog on a treadmill To scientifically measure that observation, researchers captured two dozen vampire bats from Belize and trained them to use a small treadmill typically used to measure the metabolic rates of rats.Mack DeGeurin, Popular Science, 7 Nov. 2024
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His priorities include veterans’ rights, advocating for small businesses, protecting the border and education, according to his campaign website. AD-64 includes a portion of Los Angeles County and La Habra in Orange County.Hanna Kang, Orange County Register, 7 Nov. 2024
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However, this collection of articles covers the vulgar and hypocritical parade of politics during the Roaring ’20s, when Prohibition was the nominal law of the land.Ben Jacobs, The Atlantic, 1 Nov. 2024
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Located in a state that's deep blue on the presidential level, this suburb was represented for a long time in Congress by senior Democrats like Eliot Engel and Nita Lowey, both of whom coasted to reelection with nominal opposition in older versions of this district.Tal Axelrod, ABC News, 30 Oct. 2024
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Yet there is little federal oversight or scrutiny of political texts.Lisa M. Krieger, The Mercury News, 1 Nov. 2024
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The monsoon was also sporadic, providing little rainfall to alleviate temperatures.Hayleigh Evans, The Arizona Republic, 1 Nov. 2024
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Despite the emotional celebration, the Raptors’ Global Ambassador still had some petty energy to put into the air.Armon Sadler, VIBE.com, 4 Nov. 2024
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There is a long tradition of petty smuggling in the region.Ed Caesar, The New Yorker, 4 Nov. 2024
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The technology that powers someone’s business, Pani said, should be relatively unimportant.Steven Aquino, Forbes, 18 Oct. 2024
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These are relatively unimportant things in the grand scheme of life, but wouldn’t that be almost more disconcerting than a host of large-scale changes?Erin Qualey, Vulture, 21 Feb. 2024
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Where Zemeckis went wrong was not cutting the insignificant plotlines and zeroing in on the most prominent storyline, the Youngs, as well as relying on de-aging technology instead of either using old-fashioned stage makeup techniques — or simply hiring differently aged actors.Meredith G. White, The Arizona Republic, 30 Oct. 2024
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Still, a number of rally attendees largely dismissed it as insignificant.Lawrence Andrea, Journal Sentinel, 30 Oct. 2024
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“Trivial.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/trivial. Accessed 16 Nov. 2024.
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