trivialities

noun

plural of triviality
as in trifles
something of little importance overlooked such trivialities as haphazardly folded napkins when rating the quality of restaurants

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Recent Examples of trivialities Spain’s shrewdness came in their refusal to engage with off-the-ball trivialities. — Adam Crafton, New York Times, 20 July 2026 After debuting in 2007, The Big Bang Theory entertained viewers with the everyday trivialities and obsessions of friends who work in science. — Lincee Ray, Entertainment Weekly, 15 June 2026
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  1. trifles
  2. smoke
  3. zeros
Noun
  • But, when Dovner questioned him lightly about the details, the man’s infectious laughter made Gleb even more convinced that such trifles were hardly worth mentioning at all.
    — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, New Yorker, 27 Sep. 2026
  • Or its lazy gaze and obsession with gloss over lived-in texture, which sinks its moments of violence into forgettable trifles?
    — Angelica Jade Bastién, Vulture, 4 Sep. 2026
Definition of trifles
Noun
  • Baltzor, and hired riders, had to hoof it through heavy smoke into the mountains to extract their cattle from the path of the fires.
    — Anna King, NPR, 25 Oct. 2026
  • Safety Ed Reed, wearing the jersey of the late Sean Taylor, cranked the hurricane siren pregame before the team ran through the smoke onto the field.
    — Jordan McPherson, Miami Herald, 24 Oct. 2026
Definition of smoke
Noun
  • The first version, dated September 30, 2026, claimed to show that all nontrivial zeros must be between 1/8 and 7/8, and was formally verified using the Lean programming language.
    — Quanta Magazine, Quanta Magazine, 19 Oct. 2026
  • Engineers could represent the two configurations as binary digits, or zeros and ones.
    — Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 13 Oct. 2026
Definition of zeros

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