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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

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

“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

“The unfortunate thing is that journalists are trying to create a genre out of gender, which trivializes it,” she added.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 19, 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

Others scoff that calling it a slur trivializes real oppression.

From Slate ● Aug. 31, 2025

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

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

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

Plantation museums, including those dedicated to the nation’s first presidents, have been justly criticized for marginalizing, trivializing or even erasing enslavement from their presentations of history.

From Washington Post ● Apr. 29, 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