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triviality

[triv-ee-al-i-tee] / ˌtrɪv iˈæl ɪ ti /




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Some of her patients apologized for the seeming triviality of their traumas compared with the horrors she survived.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 14, 2026

She honored those traces even as she ironically nailed their indefensible triviality.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 27, 2024

He also took aim at the newspaper articles submitted as evidence of illicit newsgathering, saying they offered a "breathtaking level of triviality".

From BBC ● May 12, 2023

But don’t mistake her for any triviality, Jeré Longman writes in The Times.

From New York Times ● Apr. 3, 2023

Helen Burns asked some slight question about her work of Miss Smith, was chidden for the triviality of the inquiry, returned to her place, and smiled at me as she again went by.

From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë

All that matters in this moment is one of life's most edifying trivialities: snooker.

From BBC ● Apr. 20, 2026

Still, it would be hard to find another writer who brings Ms. Gaul’s particular strengths to what could have been merely esoteric culinary-history trivialities.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 24, 2025

There are constant trivialities about how handsome Hunter looks in a suit and exchanges of “I love you” between the couple.

From Washington Post ● Jun. 14, 2022

White House staffers ultimately did respond after the article was published, knocking Politico for focusing on trivialities.

From Salon ● Dec. 7, 2021

And perhaps this is the rationale of all risky sports: You deliberately raise the ante of effort and concentration in order, as it were, to clear your mind of trivialities.

From "Into Thin Air" by Jon Krakauer




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