Word: trivialize
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...board games--Scrabble and Trivial Pursuit--sit stacked on a brown wooden bookshelf in the upper corner of the room, their box covers tattered from frequent use. Kedlaya says he also enjoys chess and bridge, but doesn't find much time to play...
...Scalia] talked about how he spent hours on trivial bankruptcy cases, perfecting his prose," Pasquale says. "To a frightening extent, I am a perfectionist...
...Dean of the College Harry R. Lewis '68 and leaders of Digitas and the Harvard Computer Society and designed to remodel to Science computer terminals and protect students from acquiring carpal tunnel syndrome--were termed "irrelevant" by council executives. The practical and relevant was sacrificed to the obscure and trivial...
...implication that seemed to lurk behind the articles about Travers was that she hadn't really liked life or the world very much. In fact, interviews with Travers suggest little more than that she couldn't abide journalists and had little patience with people who yearned to elicit trivial, simplistic or self-evident answers from her. In this, she resembled the unconventional governess she created...
...safe to use credit cards on the Internet as it is to do business by mail. The chances of being "ripped off" other than by the "advertiser," even without encryption, are trivial. Should it happen, there are numerous safeguards that limit a buyer's liability. My credit- card company, for instance, monitors my pattern of buying and calls me for verification if there are suspicious variations. JIMMIE R. MITCHELL Nokesville, Virginia...