Word: downplay
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...while wrestling remains an individualist sport and Jantzen continues to downplay his impact, it has been his never-ending drive which has made Harvard wrestling the ultimate team sport, where the accomplishments of one can elevate all of his teammates to greater efforts...
Others involved downplay the publicity the event received. Kelly claims that Shofner went down to the Globe’s offices himself. “He wanted to drum up publicity,” she says. The whole thing was, she claims, “more of a publicity stunt for Stewart to get attention?...
...1990s, would cause severe withdrawal pangs in economies such as Japan and Taiwan, and could even plunge them into recession. But that fate would not be shared evenly or universally throughout Asia, economists note. Despite the euphoria about China as the Next Big Thing, many observers are quick to downplay the notion that Asia is as dependent on China (yet) as the conventional wisdom held even a few months ago. The mainland is still not nearly as key to the region as a whole as is the U.S., Europe or Japan. Merrill Lynch economist T.J. Bond, for example, notes that...
...unions down to Harvard’s own Progressive Student Labor Movement have historically been dominated by men, leaving women wondering whether labor activism is a sphere in which they are even welcome. Overlooked by feminists whose objectives are more cultural than economic, overlooked by union organizers who historically downplay gendered issues like sexual harassment and the glass ceiling, working women have been left in the lurch more than once. And more than once, they have taken matters into their own hands...
...averse to any accolades or kudos that would separate him from his teammates—who you’d imagine trying actively to slouch his shoulders and hunch his back to avoid drawing unwanted notice; the same player who tries to minimize his frame off the field and downplay his own talent and successes on it the same way he walks under the ill-designed doorframes that have plagued him his whole life...