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Recent Examples of trivial Despite her trivial inclusion, Mother Monster’s warning still lingers. Ben Travers, IndieWire, 4 Sep. 2025 With a few exceptions, this cast is rife with petty grudges and trivial scandals that make for perfect competition-show fodder. Kathleen Walsh, Glamour, 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 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 See All Example Sentences for trivial
Recent Examples of Synonyms for trivial
Adjective
  • The higher the position, the greater the visibility, and the more costly even minor lapses become.
    Julian Hayes II, Forbes.com, 8 Sep. 2025
  • Blue jumpsuits indicate an immigration infraction or a minor criminal charge; red ones denote a more serious crime.
    Jonathan Blitzer, New Yorker, 8 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • Boise State basketball’s conference schedule was announced on Tuesday morning, and there’s a slight difference to this year’s Mountain West slate.
    Shaun Goodwin, Idaho Statesman, 9 Sep. 2025
  • While strong finances and health helped bolster the country's overall 70% score, that was offset by factors including income inequality, a slight increase in unemployment and a decline in happiness.
    Lorie Konish, CNBC, 9 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • Even if advised by a manufacturer, the marble cleaning solution should still be tested on a small, inconspicuous area before getting started.
    Patricia Shannon, Southern Living, 9 Sep. 2025
  • Her list continues with small but frustrating oversights.
    Ashley Vega, People.com, 9 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • The current, nominal target for such a mission is 2027, but no reasonable observer believes that is possible.
    Eric Berger, ArsTechnica, 5 Sep. 2025
  • Though the nominal focus is Hind Rajab herself, Ben Hania’s film is a window on the world of Palestine’s Red Crescent volunteer service.
    Damon Wise, Deadline, 3 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • Seattle did very little to silence those critics in Week 1.
    Michael-Shawn Dugar, New York Times, 8 Sep. 2025
  • He was joined by little bro Jason, who's younger than him by 13 months.
    Skyler Caruso, PEOPLE, 8 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • Over the next 1,358 days, there would be just a handful of credible sightings of Phillips, mostly connected with petty crimes in nearby small towns.
    Todd Symons, CNN Money, 9 Sep. 2025
  • Nothing is too petty, too silly, too stupid, or too weird to be included.
    Aytekin Tank, Forbes.com, 9 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • Those tests that pick up most cancers tend to pick up other unimportant things as well — and those screening tests that are limited to discovering cancer often miss many people with the disease.
    Cory Franklin, Chicago Tribune, 1 Sep. 2025
  • That level of discipline is not common in retail, especially when outsiders think the business is unimportant.
    Jim Osman, Forbes.com, 29 Aug. 2025
Adjective
  • That attention to detail — the belief that no detail is insignificant — is responsible for the career of the most famous man in football.
    Kansas City Star, Kansas City Star, 5 Sep. 2025
  • During the 1980s, mainframe engineers considered personal computers to be insignificant devices.
    Sadhasivam Mohanadas, Forbes.com, 3 Sep. 2025

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“Trivial.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/trivial. Accessed 14 Sep. 2025.

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