1
as in minor
lacking importance
why spend so much time on trivial decisions, like whether the soda should be regular or diet?
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2
as in slight
so small or unimportant as to warrant little or no attention
figured that restaurant customers wouldn't notice such a trivial surcharge on their bill
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Recent Examples of trivial
Once coding agents make app-building trivial, a restaurant chain might reclaim its digital experience from third-party vendors overnight.
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Leslie Lee, Forbes.com, 3 Sep. 2025
As if the landscape, literally and figuratively, hadn’t already been disrupted by the seismic shifts, and bedlam, of conference realignment — a force that in many ways rendered trivial what was most special about collegiate athletics.
—Kansas City Star, 3 Sep. 2025
Does bad stadium art matter, or is this a trivial complaint?
—Sally Jenkins, The Atlantic, 30 Aug. 2025
The results showed what the researchers describe as being a trivial contribution of gradual evolution toward the physical shape of cephalopods over some 500 million years, with 99% of the evolution occurring in spectacular bursts near the forking of branches.
—Jake Buehler, Quanta Magazine, 28 Aug. 2025
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Leslie Lee, Forbes.com, 3 Sep. 2025
As if the landscape, literally and figuratively, hadn’t already been disrupted by the seismic shifts, and bedlam, of conference realignment — a force that in many ways rendered trivial what was most special about collegiate athletics.
—Kansas City Star, 3 Sep. 2025
Does bad stadium art matter, or is this a trivial complaint?
—Sally Jenkins, The Atlantic, 30 Aug. 2025
The results showed what the researchers describe as being a trivial contribution of gradual evolution toward the physical shape of cephalopods over some 500 million years, with 99% of the evolution occurring in spectacular bursts near the forking of branches.
—Jake Buehler, Quanta Magazine, 28 Aug. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for trivial
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Use them to freshen up during a layover or deal with a minor spill.—
Alesandra Dubin,
Travel + Leisure,
29 Aug. 2025
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Tariffs, smelter delays, and fluctuating aluminum prices represent significant risks, and with shares already priced for cyclical uncertainty, even minor setbacks could maintain pressure on the stock.—
Trefis Team,
Forbes.com,
29 Aug. 2025
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Barefoot driving is legal in all 50 states, with the one slight exception being Alabama where footwear is required on motorcycles.—
Georgea Kovanis,
The Courier-Journal,
3 Sep. 2025
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Mail-in voting is now more popular among Democrats In the 2008 presidential election, there was only a slight difference in the popularity of mail-in voting by political party, according to a data analysis by Charles Stewart, director of the MIT Election Data and Science Lab.—
Carlie Procell,
USA Today,
2 Sep. 2025
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Aalo expects to complete construction and reach criticality by July 4, 2026, a timeline the company says demonstrates the speed at which small, modular nuclear reactors can be deployed.—
Neetika Walter,
Interesting Engineering,
29 Aug. 2025
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Snap up travel essentials, comfy pajamas, small kitchen must-haves, and more gems.—
Isabel Garcia,
People.com,
29 Aug. 2025
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Is this the flipside of a higher nominal-growth metabolism across the world?—
Michael Santoli,
CNBC,
2 Sep. 2025
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On the eve of World War I, Britain’s total debt, in nominal pounds, was about the same as 1819.—
Nathan Lewis,
Forbes.com,
29 Aug. 2025
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Video footage from the day shows Beau, 4, pacing the hallway and sitting miserably after his little brother said goodbye to him before going to school.—
Saman Shafiq,
USA Today,
31 Aug. 2025
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Civil libertarians say the systems do little to prevent crime and can be used to invade privacy and chill free speech on campus in an age of protest.—
John Wisely,
Freep.com,
31 Aug. 2025
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Take a trip to 2099, with Star Amerasu’s hysterical and clever social-media videos set in our very petty future.—
Jessica Winter,
New Yorker,
27 Aug. 2025
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The film explores the petty jealousies and power dynamics that fuel the group of interchangeable young men in Oliver’s orbit, as Matthew gradually becomes famous by association and fights to stay relevant.—
Patrick Ryan,
USA Today,
23 Aug. 2025
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That level of discipline is not common in retail, especially when outsiders think the business is unimportant.—
Jim Osman,
Forbes.com,
29 Aug. 2025
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Those will be underlying, unimportant issues for much of the year.—
Sebastian Stafford-Bloor,
New York Times,
18 Aug. 2025
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In one pilot, a seemingly insignificant contrarian footnote turned out to be the most accurate contributor.—
Akhilesh Sharma,
Forbes.com,
28 Aug. 2025
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That release earned more than $20 million, which means that a not-insignificant number of Americans were willing to show up for the film in its original Chinese-language form.—
Shirley Li,
The Atlantic,
27 Aug. 2025
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“Trivial.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/trivial. Accessed 7 Sep. 2025.
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