as in trifles
something of little importance
overlooked such trivialities as haphazardly folded napkins when rating the quality of restaurants
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Elegant trifles that prove a baking fail doesn’t mean failure at all.—
Elizabeth Fogarty,
Better Homes & Gardens,
9 Sep. 2025
Noun
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As street protests entered a second day, demonstrators set fire to the Supreme Court building, and smoke was seen pouring out of the country’s Parliament complex, The New York Times reported.—
Paige Bruton,
semafor.com,
9 Sep. 2025
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Where there’s smoke, there might be fire.—
Bernie Pleskoff,
Forbes.com,
9 Sep. 2025
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Strong technical leaders don't just translate between the world of zeros and ones and the world of dollars and cents.—
Meeky Hwang,
Forbes.com,
25 Aug. 2025
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That is, they are composed of on/off switches strung together in logic circuits that process data as a string of binary ones and zeros.—
New Atlas,
New Atlas,
21 Aug. 2025
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Advertisement Foulkes and Michôd did have to make some small changes to Martin's story.—
Esther Zuckerman,
Time,
6 Sep. 2025
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Even small changes, like walking to school a few days a week, can improve energy and build lifelong healthy habits.—
Brian Castrucci,
Forbes.com,
3 Sep. 2025
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“Trivialities.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/trivialities. Accessed 11 Sep. 2025.
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