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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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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
The cost of an independent study is trivial compared to the cost of emergency enforcement, retrofits, and reactive fixes once problems surface.
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Ed Gaskin, Boston Herald, 31 Jan. 2026
Yet this trivial formula produces structures of literally infinite complexity.
—Amir Husain, Forbes.com, 29 Jan. 2026
Meanwhile, inside, people are fighting about trivial things.
—Marta Balaga, Variety, 29 Jan. 2026
These differences are not trivial.
—Eliot A. Cohen, The Atlantic, 23 Jan. 2026
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Ed Gaskin, Boston Herald, 31 Jan. 2026
Yet this trivial formula produces structures of literally infinite complexity.
—Amir Husain, Forbes.com, 29 Jan. 2026
Meanwhile, inside, people are fighting about trivial things.
—Marta Balaga, Variety, 29 Jan. 2026
These differences are not trivial.
—Eliot A. Cohen, The Atlantic, 23 Jan. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for trivial
Adjective
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Aside from the three fatalities, four people were hospitalized including two men, both 35, who were in critical condition, and two other men, 37 and 38, who sustained minor injuries, according to the fire department.—
Karen Garcia,
Los Angeles Times,
7 Feb. 2026
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Of the more than 70,000 people currently in immigration detention facilities, only about 25% of them have any kind of criminal conviction, which can include traffic violations and other minor offenses, according to the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse, which tracks detention data.—
Trevor Hughes,
USA Today,
7 Feb. 2026
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On Friday, there was only a slight danger of avalanches in Slovakia's highest mountain range.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
7 Feb. 2026
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Sateen weave bedding also tends to have a slight sheen with a drapey design, and an opulent feel right out of the package, Brenot points out.—
Yelena Moroz Alpert,
Architectural Digest,
7 Feb. 2026
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Caudle told The Associated Press in a recent interview that his vision is to deploy smaller, newer ships when possible instead of consistently turning to huge aircraft carriers.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
14 Feb. 2026
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The small edit stood out for its playful party spirit and the brand was instantly associated to a sense of fun and maximalism unusual in the Scandinavian fashion scene.—
Sandra Salibian,
Footwear News,
13 Feb. 2026
Adjective
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The source said the Heat were not willing to offload for nominal draft capital.—
Ira Winderman,
Sun Sentinel,
7 Feb. 2026
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Today, his brother Raúl Castro is 94, and Cuba’ s nominal president, Miguel Diaz-Canel, is an obscure bureaucrat who has a hard time keeping his audiences awake.—
Andres Oppenheimer,
Miami Herald,
5 Feb. 2026
Adjective
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The importance of motive At this point, there’s little to suggest the motive is political or ideological, Leising said.—
Chris Kenning,
USA Today,
8 Feb. 2026
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The big-tech releases from last week did little to calm nerves stateside, while some of Europe's biggest names are preparing to report this week.—
Leonie Kidd,
CNBC,
8 Feb. 2026
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But Putin was not going to launch a new war against Turkey’s rebel allies just to save a petty dictator whose own soldiers were deserting.—
Robert F. Worth,
The Atlantic,
6 Feb. 2026
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Ruling like a petty tyrant from the company’s headquarters in lower Manhattan, Coplan isn’t an easy boss to work with, according to new reporting by the Wall Street Journal.—
Joe Wilkins Published Feb 4,
Futurism,
4 Feb. 2026
Adjective
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Some people are surrounded by care and still feel chronically unimportant.—
Mark Travers,
Forbes.com,
28 Jan. 2026
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One of the votes at issue was about a project in Bonin’s district that sailed through the council, with Price’s vote unimportant to the project’s outcome.—
James Queally,
Los Angeles Times,
23 Jan. 2026
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The shifts from one poll to another have been almost insignificant in isolation and easily within the surveys’ margin of error.—
Craig Gilbert,
jsonline.com,
9 Feb. 2026
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The day before Thanksgiving his daughter, out of the blue, verbally attacked me over something insignificant.—
R. Eric Thomas,
Denver Post,
7 Feb. 2026
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“Trivial.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/trivial. Accessed 14 Feb. 2026.
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