downplayed
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While FDA staffers downplayed this benefit, one oncologist at the advisory committee hearing pointedly noted that most physicians consider a 30% response rate in metastatic patients whose cancer worsened on other treatments to be significant.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 31, 2026
Bowe downplayed people calling him a hero and insisted it was a team effort.
From BBC ● Jul. 24, 2026
It was the first evidence of a U.S. attack near Mexico, although Sheinbaum and other officials downplayed its significance.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 20, 2026
Warsh downplayed the usefulness of the Fed’s public forecasts, declined to submit one himself, and argued that markets perform best when reacting to economic data rather than interpreting Fed signals.
From Barron's ● Jun. 22, 2026
Nonreligious white liberals have typically downplayed the role of religion in the civil rights movement, but historian Aldon Morris is correct in asserting that the lunch-counter protests were not primarily a college phenomenon.
From "The Best of Enemies" by Osha Gray Davidson
