Word: downplay
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...This certainly isn’t to downplay the contribution the five-member senior class made to this season’s success. Midfielders Erin Wylie and Rachael Lau were formidable presences in the midfield, with Wylie always lurking as a scoring threat. Nicole Rhodes anchored a solid back line. An injured Allison Keeley captained from the sideline. Maggie Robinson served as a veteran presence on the three-player goalkeeping corps...
...site (Wiki contributors noted that he deleted references to his Wikipedia co-founder, Larry Sanger, as well as to a search site he founded that included adult content). Now a monitoring program called WikiWatcher aims to unmask similar transgressions on other Wiki entries - such as when ExxonMobil tried to downplay the environmental impact of the Valdez oil spill and when the FBI deleted aerial images of the Guantánamo Bay detention camp from the camp's entry...
...country at great personal loss. It can be easily argued that America is strongest when its economy is at its best, so the candidate would do well to dwell more on fixing the economy, providing jobs and research and development which have made America so strong, and downplay the macho America which only alienates it from the rest of the world. Honor, though, is another question! Eyo Okon, LAGOS, NIGERIA...
...private contractors must get Defense Ministry approval for such deals.) The Israelis decided to refrain from authorizing new defense contracts, although those currently in effect will be fulfilled. Israel stressed that the contracts are to provide equipment for defensive purposes. But if the Israelis were looking to downplay the significance of military ties, they weren't helped by comments like Yakobashvili's - or by Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili's enthusing at a press conference earlier this week that "the Israeli weapons have been very effective...
Think that's a big deal? You and everyone else. Except, that is, for Phelps himself, who continues to downplay the significance of what he has achieved in Beijing - seven medals, six world records, and one more to go. "It shows that no matter what you set your mind to, anything can happen," Phelps said with his typical lack of emotion when asked about matching Spitz. "I saw so many quotes saying it's impossible to duplicate, that it won't happen. But Bob [Bowman, Phelps' coach] is the one who helped me to really dream about anything...