Word: trivializes
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...While it may seem a trivial issue to allow rivals like Mozilla Firefox and Apple Safari to put their icons on Microsoft screens, the concession could signal the end of the company's domination of the browser market. Until now, Microsoft has used its near monopoly in operating systems to foist Explorer on Windows users - despite the fact that the browser is widely derided by computer experts and everyday users alike as being clunky. Critics say this brutal marketing strategy explains why Explorer accounts for about 64% of global Internet traffic, followed by Firefox at 25% and Safari and Google...
...office chair on an average Monday, I catch it out of the corner of my eye—a pulsating red light. It’s summoning me, beckoning me, pleading with me to check my voicemail. I spend all afternoon trying to avoid it, taking care of other trivial tasks until I can resist no longer. I dial the number...
...this seems trivial, there’s no doubt that we should be grateful for the unpredicted survival of Nabokov’s incomplete final novel “The Original of Laura,” finally published a few weeks ago. Despite Nabokov’s request that it be posthumously burnt, his family suddenly concluded a tortured 30-year debate this fall by deciding to grant the public access to the fragments. Reviewers rightly note that the book falls far short of being a “Pale Fire” or “Lolita?...
...life. I love Thanksgiving. It's my favorite day of the year. I wake up early, about 5 am. My first 30 lb. turkey - I cook two - goes into the oven, and then my Thanksgiving day begins. It's all about cooking, watching a little football, and a little Trivial Pursuit at the end of our meal...
...then it remembered that Ranger Cookies are no trivial issue and e-mailed Martin Breslin, Director for Culinary Operations, who came through with the scoop—the dough?—right away...