trivial
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The storytelling often focuses on small, trivial incidents - in one episode the only significant event is that Alan, played by Graham "Grado" Stevely, has some spare doughnuts.
From BBC • May 13, 2026
"There is some compensation occurring in larger insects, but it is trivial in the grand scheme of things."
From Science Daily • Apr. 25, 2026
She believed, as Arendt never could have, in the judgment of history as “an objective suprahuman process” that, like God for believers, would remember even trivial human events and endow all experience with meaning.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 24, 2026
Most economists, meanwhile, expect that the impact of higher energy costs on inflation will be relatively trivial.
From Barron's • Apr. 17, 2026
It was the history of the family, written by Melquíades, down to the most trivial details, one hundred years ahead of time.
From "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Vocabulary lists containing trivial
Essential Academic Vocabulary for High School Students, List 2
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"The Story of an Hour" by Kate Chopin
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