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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

You expect a terse “fine,” so you may proceed to some other triviality like sports or the weather.

From Salon Sep. 1, 2025

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

The pangrams from yesterday’s Spelling Bee were triviality, trivially, and virality.

From New York Times Dec. 3, 2022

Lesson on lesson they’ve suffered through, recognizing, more profoundly each time, their indignity, shame, triviality.

From "Grendel" by John Gardner

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

An answer comes, indirectly, from the diary of Inge Jansen, the socialite wife of an NSB official: She didn’t mention the events at all, recording only her lunch engagements and other trivialities.

From Washington Post Mar. 1, 2023

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

From Salon Dec. 7, 2021

Janet was fairly sure that Reiki was Japanese, Wicca was British, and yoga came from a different kind of Indian, but her mother had no time for such trivialities.

From "Legendary Frybread Drive-In" by Cynthia Leitich Smith




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