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We don’t want to hear commencement speeches about how we cannot outrun AI domination because they trivialize the work we have done ourselves.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 4, 2026

He said those kinds of teaching methods are inappropriate, trivialize the experience of the victims, and are disproportionately traumatic for students of color.

From Seattle Times ● May 31, 2024

And his solution speaks not to his insensitivity but his integrity, his refusal to exploit or trivialize Japanese suffering by re-enacting it for the camera.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 11, 2023

This may trivialize the experience of those who have suffered from trauma.

From Salon ● Mar. 9, 2023

Visual analysis can help us to appreciate the beauty of a masterpiece, but we must be careful not to use a formulaic approach that would trivialize it.

From "History of Art, Volume 1" by H.W. Janson

Kercher’s sister, Stephanie Kercher, told the BBC this week that Knox’s show trivializes the murder of her sister in Perugia, where the two women were students almost two decades ago.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 7, 2026

Meme-driven AI content that trivializes conflict as it spreads misinformation is increasingly crowding out reality on digital platforms, in what ISD researchers call the "Legofication" of war propaganda.

From Barron's ● Apr. 2, 2026

"In some ways, it trivializes concern about the climate crisis because it presents such a caricature of the science," Mann wrote to Salon.

From Salon ● May 23, 2023

It trivializes the experiences of those who are medication non-responsive, unstable, underemployed, or simply overwhelmed.

From Slate ● Mar. 30, 2023

Although there may be some truth in both hypotheses, this sort of posthumous off-the-rack psychoanalysis is a dubious, highly speculative enterprise that inevitably demeans and trivializes the absent analysand.

From "Into the Wild" by Jon Krakauer

The issue has been trivialized to the point of being "presented as a form of therapy", argued Trudo Lemmens, a health law professor at the University of Toronto.

From Barron's ● Feb. 25, 2026

Cobb didn’t find much to read about menopause, beyond shoddy research and medical tracts which trivialized or pathologized what she knew to be a natural phase of life.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 7, 2026

L.A. is frequently seen as a place of destruction, where the past is bulldozed and forgotten and then trivialized and romanticized.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 10, 2025

"And I feel like for so long, PMS has been mocked and kind of trivialized, and people don't really take it seriously."

From BBC ● Aug. 12, 2024

Hellenistic rulers, it is said, trivialized Greek civic life by reducing it to pompous pageantry and contests over who could best flatter the king.

From "Circumference" by Nicholas Nicastro

This kind of talk may be relatively common in places like the U.S., but it was new in Germany, where trivializing the Holocaust can land you in court.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 8, 2026

It’s not trivializing this summit or missing the point, I would argue, to understand it as first and foremost a semiotic spectacle, conducted through language, symbols and signifiers.

From Salon ● May 17, 2026

Some film critics, including The Times’ Justin Chang, argued that Nolan didn’t want to reduce the atomic bombings of Japan to a trivializing, exploitative spectacle.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 9, 2023

Barbara Walters, the woman blamed for trivializing TV news, commented: “I rest my case.”

From Washington Post ● Dec. 30, 2022

Here is the whole program of confusing, enervating, and trivializing the mind of the world.

From The International Jew The World's Foremost Problem by Henry Ford