trivialize
verb
triv·i·al·ize
ˈtri-vē-ə-ˌlīz 
trivialized; trivializing
: to make trivial : reduce to triviality
Examples of trivialize in a Sentence
The news story trivialized the problem.
He is trivializing the situation.
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Buzzwords risk trivializing serious issues when leaders don’t look past labels and address what’s underneath.
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Dave Smith, Fortune, 17 Oct. 2025
At times, Anderson trivializes the righteous ardor that goes into active, violent resistance, but there is nothing trivial in his portrait of shattered lives and relationships and of an American society shaken to its core.
—Richard Brody, New Yorker, 7 Oct. 2025
The film, which saw Russian-Canadian filmmaker Anastasia Trofimova accompany a Russian military unit in the war in Ukraine, was criticized for trivializing Russian war crimes in Ukraine.
—Diana Lodderhose, Deadline, 27 Sep. 2025
As for the third criticism—that the point system is gamification, trivializing death and destruction—Prickly dismisses it out of hand.
—Tamar Jacoby, Forbes.com, 19 Sep. 2025
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Dave Smith, Fortune, 17 Oct. 2025
At times, Anderson trivializes the righteous ardor that goes into active, violent resistance, but there is nothing trivial in his portrait of shattered lives and relationships and of an American society shaken to its core.
—Richard Brody, New Yorker, 7 Oct. 2025
The film, which saw Russian-Canadian filmmaker Anastasia Trofimova accompany a Russian military unit in the war in Ukraine, was criticized for trivializing Russian war crimes in Ukraine.
—Diana Lodderhose, Deadline, 27 Sep. 2025
As for the third criticism—that the point system is gamification, trivializing death and destruction—Prickly dismisses it out of hand.
—Tamar Jacoby, Forbes.com, 19 Sep. 2025
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“Trivialize.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/trivialize. Accessed 31 Oct. 2025.
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