How to Use trivialize in a Sentence

trivialize

verb
  • The news story trivialized the problem.
  • He is trivializing the situation.
  • Does that demean him, or re-trivialize him as the pretty boy he was once taken to be?
    — Joe Morgenstern, WSJ, 5 Feb. 2020
  • To say that does not trivialize the Holocaust, as some timid folk insist.
    — Orlando Sentinel and South Florida Sun Sentinel Editorial Boards, Orlando Sentinel, 14 Mar. 2025
  • The only problem was that every music video idea seemed to trivialize it.
    — Rebecca Keegan, The Hollywood Reporter, 5 Dec. 2023
  • Too much reduction, and the flesh and blood turn into billboards and are trivialized.
    — Brian T. Allen, National Review, 10 Aug. 2019
  • Gaslighters may deny or refuse to hear a person’s concerns or trivialize their feelings.
    — Jorie Goins, chicagotribune.com, 12 Nov. 2019
  • There’s no trivializing the song’s subject — friends who died too young in the streets of Detroit.
    — Jonathan Rowe, Spin, 22 Aug. 2023
  • Something goes wrong when that happens; our culture gets trivialized.
    — Armond White, National Review, 17 Jan. 2024
  • Does putting the car up for display, especially at fairs, trivialize the horror of the war?
    — Lorraine Boissoneault, Smithsonian, 16 Mar. 2017
  • Unabashed pop groups with fervid teenage followings tend to get trivialized, at least in the media.
    — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 8 July 2023
  • Garland is careful, too, to neither fetishize nor trivialize her terror.
    — Stephanie Zacharek, Time, 20 May 2022
  • The second is a series of attempts to trivialize or co-opt an adversary’s framing of events.
    — P. W. Singer, Foreign Affairs, 5 Dec. 2023
  • Laughter didn’t trivialize the pain.
    — Sadhna Bokhiria, Forbes.com, 22 Aug. 2025
  • But our current crisis of care didn’t come about because women’s work has long been both trivialized and exploited.
    — Melissa Gira Grant, The New Republic, 28 Apr. 2020
  • First, because the phrase trivializes the tens of millions of females who have been killed, maimed, or raped during actual wars.
    — Letters To The Editor, The Mercury News, 25 Aug. 2019
  • The movie trivializes the team’s endurance by relegating a lengthy winning streak to a montage.
    — Ben Kenigsberg, New York Times, 5 Apr. 2018
  • There’s plenty of food for thought here too, and Carmichael clearly hasn’t set out to trivialize a serious subject.
    — Washington Post, 11 May 2022
  • Why risk trivializing them by referring to a kids’ nursery rhyme in the title and through the character names?
    — Patrick Frater, Variety, 4 Sep. 2024
  • Not to trivialize something that is at heart a human-rights issue, but college basketball had something to do with this.
    — Mark Bradley, ajc, 30 Mar. 2017
  • Telling her story against this backdrop, Reen was mindful not to trivialize the subject matter.
    — CNN, 11 Aug. 2022
  • And while the show’s an exploitation of our collective tendency to fetishize the decade, that doesn’t trivialize the art inside.
    — Andrea Alonso, Los Angeles Magazine, 12 June 2018
  • Also the use of quotation marks with the term, assault weapon, trivializes how Americans view these guns.
    — Linda Gandee/special To Cleveland.com, cleveland.com, 5 Mar. 2018
  • Left off the list are Angels players who died during their careers, tragedies that shouldn’t be trivialized by conjecture about a curse.
    — Steve Henson, Los Angeles Times, 30 Aug. 2023
  • In unsure hands, this combination of wide and narrow focus can go wrong, ending up seeming to trivialize both.
    — Steve Donoghue, The Christian Science Monitor, 12 Apr. 2022
  • Some found the posts distasteful, trivializing what had already become a deadly conflict, while others saw them as a way to laugh off their fear.
    — New York Times, 5 Jan. 2020
  • In response, the Māori have begun pushing back themselves to defend their culture and keep it from being trivialized.
    — Kevin Baxter, Los Angeles Times, 19 July 2023
  • Doing so does not trivialize human life but acknowledges — as all of us must — that saving lives at any cost is not practical nor desirable.
    — Eric Sun, National Review, 11 Sep. 2020
  • Meanwhile, Bragg pounced on her comments, depicting them as trivializing the process.
    — Jose R. Gonzalez, The Arizona Republic, 22 Feb. 2024
  • What those privileged guys did at the end of the game Tuesday can’t be rationalized, trivialized or excused.
    — Paul Daugherty, Cincinnati.com, 23 Jan. 2020

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