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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

DR: We certainly do not want to give off the impression that we tolerate any bit of misinformation or harmful content or trivialize the impact it has, especially to those people that it does affect.

From Salon ● Oct. 25, 2024

She’s worried that these trending videos may trivialize the profession and those searching for pain relief.

From New York Times ● Jun. 19, 2024

“The clarity of Assemblyman Gabriel’s legislation is necessary to change the current dynamic in which governments, museums, and collectors are incentivized to resist restitution and employ tactics and arguments that trivialize the Holocaust,” Dubbin said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 28, 2024

Not to understand this is to misunderstand the public uses of schooling and to trivialize the nature of intimate life—a family’s ‘language.’

From "Hunger of Memory" by Richard Rodriguez

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

When media carry this real oppression and suffering as programming, it trivializes the social harm and human suffering.

From Salon ● Feb. 24, 2025

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

"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

As an "invisible" condition, it is treated differently than other neurological conditions and has been trivialized, Marino said.

From Salon ● Sep. 3, 2023

She said I had trivialized the issue and if I thought it was outdated I was living with my head in the sand.

From "The Handmaid's Tale" by Margaret Atwood

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 Chinese commentators have warned against trivializing the war for the sake of reaching new audiences.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 27, 2025

Christopher Nolan’s movie has no interest in reducing the atomic bombings of Japan to a trivializing, exploitative spectacle, despite what some would want.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 11, 2023

Hardly the type to be resentful or hold grudges, she was unfailingly pleasant and respectful with others, never trivializing her interactions with them, even if the content of the exchanges was trivial.

From Washington Post ● May 6, 2022

It is not the dangerous knowledge which must be avoided, but it is the trivializing influence of a steady contact with things which are not worth knowing.

From The Photoplay A Psychological Study by Hugo Münsterberg