How to Use trivialize in a Sentence

trivialize

verb
Definition of trivializenext
  • There’s no trivializing the song’s subject — friends who died too young in the streets of Detroit.
    — Jonathan Rowe, Spin, 22 Aug. 2023
  • If this has the effect of trivializing the season, so be it.
    — Jon Wertheim, SI.com, 6 Sep. 2017
  • This is not to trivialize the true human horror of 2020.
    — Scott Ostler, SFChronicle.com, 20 Dec. 2020
  • For nearly three years, the role of women in ISIS has been marginalized or trivialized by the press and public.
    — Taylor Luck, The Christian Science Monitor, 2 June 2017
  • Does that demean him, or re-trivialize him as the pretty boy he was once taken to be?
    — Joe Morgenstern, WSJ, 5 Feb. 2020
  • Does putting the car up for display, especially at fairs, trivialize the horror of the war?
    — Lorraine Boissoneault, Smithsonian, 16 Mar. 2017
  • Too much reduction, and the flesh and blood turn into billboards and are trivialized.
    — Brian T. Allen, National Review, 10 Aug. 2019
  • But many times, the fault (to trivialize a line from Shakespeare’s play, Julius Caesar) is not in our government, but in ourselves.
    — Tom Margenau, Dallas News, 5 Mar. 2023
  • And while the show’s an exploitation of our collective tendency to fetishize the decade, that doesn’t trivialize the art inside.
    — Andrea Alonso, Los Angeles Magazine, 12 June 2018
  • First, because the phrase trivializes the tens of millions of females who have been killed, maimed, or raped during actual wars.
    — Letters To The Editor, The Mercury News, 25 Aug. 2019
  • There’s plenty of food for thought here too, and Carmichael clearly hasn’t set out to trivialize a serious subject.
    — Washington Post, 11 May 2022
  • But many times, the fault (to trivialize a famous line from Shakespeare’s play, Julius Caesar) is not in our government, but in ourselves.
    — Tom Margenau, Dallas News, 15 May 2022
  • The only problem was that every music video idea seemed to trivialize it.
    — Rebecca Keegan, The Hollywood Reporter, 5 Dec. 2023
  • What will be the cost of trivializing impeachment this way?
    — Andrew C. McCarthy, National Review, 13 Dec. 2019
  • This trivializes the import of Bone's question, which happens to be the closest the candidates have come to talking about the climate crisis in any of the three debates so far.
    — Charles P. Pierce, Esquire, 10 Oct. 2016
  • The movie trivializes the team’s endurance by relegating a lengthy winning streak to a montage.
    — Ben Kenigsberg, New York Times, 5 Apr. 2018
  • Unabashed pop groups with fervid teenage followings tend to get trivialized, at least in the media.
    — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 8 July 2023
  • Left off the list are Angels players who died during their careers, tragedies that shouldn’t be trivialized by conjecture about a curse.
    — Steve Henson, Los Angeles Times, 30 Aug. 2023
  • Also the use of quotation marks with the term, assault weapon, trivializes how Americans view these guns.
    — Linda Gandee/special To Cleveland.com, cleveland.com, 5 Mar. 2018
  • Gaslighters may deny or refuse to hear a person’s concerns or trivialize their feelings.
    — Jorie Goins, chicagotribune.com, 12 Nov. 2019
  • The result of this collective toil is a singular vessel for beauty and pleasure, subject to the whims of the market and the vagaries of taste and therefore easy to trivialize.
    — A.o. Scott, New York Times, 24 Dec. 2017
  • Telling her story against this backdrop, Reen was mindful not to trivialize the subject matter.
    — CNN, 11 Aug. 2022
  • In response, the Māori have begun pushing back themselves to defend their culture and keep it from being trivialized.
    — Kevin Baxter, Los Angeles Times, 19 July 2023
  • Not to trivialize something that is at heart a human-rights issue, but college basketball had something to do with this.
    — Mark Bradley, ajc, 30 Mar. 2017
  • What those privileged guys did at the end of the game Tuesday can’t be rationalized, trivialized or excused.
    — Paul Daugherty, Cincinnati.com, 23 Jan. 2020
  • But our current crisis of care didn’t come about because women’s work has long been both trivialized and exploited.
    — Melissa Gira Grant, The New Republic, 28 Apr. 2020
  • Some found the posts distasteful, trivializing what had already become a deadly conflict, while others saw them as a way to laugh off their fear.
    — New York Times, 5 Jan. 2020
  • That description of the House impeachment process is not meant to trivialize developments past or future but to suggest a useful metaphor of the process.
    — CBS News, 9 Nov. 2019
  • In the United States, eating insects is often sensationalized, trivialized or framed as a source of cheap protein for an end-of-the-world scenario.
    — Tejal Rao, New York Times, 6 May 2024
  • Alvin Gray is no stranger to going viral Gray has gotten flack for trivializing sensitive subjects but says that does not perturb him.
    — The Indianapolis Star, 14 Mar. 2024

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