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Recent Examples of triviality His reinstatement of Rose and Jackson is no exception: History has become an irrelevant triviality — ignored or, even better, forgotten. Cory Franklin, Twin Cities, 1 June 2025 Never issue false assurances, but don’t dwell on trivialities either. Expert Panel®, Forbes.com, 25 Apr. 2025 Yesterday’s pangrams were triviality, trivially and virality. Alex Travelli, New York Times, 26 Mar. 2025 As a society navigating the choppy waters of quick-draw feuds and biting vitriol—no matter the triviality or seriousness of the topic in question—we are often cowered into joining the chorus versus belting out a solo for fear of being singled out. Christina L. Sgro, Forbes, 11 Mar. 2025 See All Example Sentences for triviality
Recent Examples of Synonyms for triviality
Noun
  • My memoir was built of gaps, juxtaposition, weird little nothings.
    Cheri Lucas Rowlands, Longreads, 16 Dec. 2024
  • But nothings more peaceful than tomorrow to a man going through pain today.
    Becca Longmire, Peoplemag, 22 Feb. 2024
Noun
  • Identify every instance of victim language, limitation beliefs, or smallness thinking.
    Jodie Cook, Forbes.com, 2 Sep. 2025
  • Hawley, who directed the premiere, brings an impressive sense of scale to the action, conveying the hugeness of the spaceship and its urban crash zone, contrasted with the smallness of the figures trying to make their way through the mayhem.
    Noel Murray, Vulture, 13 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • Minaj leaned into her pettiness while taking shots at Kulture’s mom in her apology.
    Michael Saponara, Billboard, 3 Oct. 2025
  • The gesture’s lack of dignity, its childishness, its pettiness, are completely in character.
    Christopher Bonanos, Curbed, 25 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Her difficulty lay in her distance from the random violence of insignificance.
    Rachel Cusk, New Yorker, 24 Aug. 2025
  • His groundbreaking work reveals how a hidden epidemic of insignificance is quietly eroding engagement, trust, and performance in organizations, and what leaders can do to reverse it.
    Rodger Dean Duncan, Forbes.com, 8 July 2025

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“Triviality.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/triviality. Accessed 9 Oct. 2025.

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