Word: trivialize
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...least the press attention is evenhanded: a German newspaper has reported rumors that opposition candidate Edmund Stoiber exaggerates his capacity for heavy drinking by secretly putting water--and on occasion herbal tea--in his beer mug at campaign stops. Suddenly, Al Gore's beard doesn't seem so trivial...
...plagued Pi Eta and some current final clubs are in some measure an omnipresent aspect of college life in general; they exist not only within the doors of the clubs, but at universities around the country. While the problems which organizations such as RUS frequently cite are clearly neither trivial nor pardonable, it is absurd to blame final clubs for having created the culture which breeds such problems, or to assume that eliminating final clubs would eliminate them...
...point seems kind of trivial but it really can make a big difference in room selection,” said Damien A. Williamson ’04, one of the most vocal opponents of the proposal. “The essence of the lottery is everyone has an equal chance of getting a low lottery number and everyone can get bad housing...
...That's just nonsense. Most have to do with the advancement of the researcher himself." If it were just a lawyer talking, that sentiment might be easy to dismiss. But Marcia Angell expresses a similar criticism: "We have floods of me-too drugs," she complains. "So much research is trivial duplication...
...raucous combination of a marching band, a parade and the smell of hot dogs on Memorial Day. I know of nowhere else where love of country comes so easily and devoid of complication. In many other places, patriotism is best kept hidden or trotted out only on trivial occasions like soccer games. In Britain members of the intelligentsia would not be seen dead, my dear, with a Union Jack--unless it were some campy '60s relic of Carnaby Street. In France the Tricolor flies from every town hall--but I have never seen one outside my French friends' houses...