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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

I don’t think that is a huge movement — to trivialize — as much as to say, “Hey, we should actually fight it where it is, fight it where the problems are.”

From Salon ● Oct. 25, 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

“We don’t want to trivialize what he said but we did have to acknowledge that he had made strides to better himself.”

From Seattle Times ● Jan. 10, 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

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

Popular culture traps us in the privatized universe of celebrity culture, urging us to define ourselves through the often empty and trivialized and highly individualized interests of celebrities.

From Salon ● Feb. 25, 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

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

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