Example Sentences

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That may not seem like a big deal, but psychologists say that the trivialization of the word might make it hard to differentiate real trauma from everyday unpleasantness.

From Salon • Mar. 9, 2023

“Yad Vashem condemns this trivialization and distortion of the historical facts of the Holocaust.”

From Seattle Times • Mar. 20, 2022

“The phenomenon of Holocaust distortion and trivialization is at all new highs,” Mr. Allen said.

From Washington Times • Jan. 27, 2022

Reminders of that war help, at least partly, to inoculate “The Trial of the Chicago 7” against the cynical trivialization that so often afflicts pop-cultural recollections of the ’60s.

From New York Times • Sep. 24, 2020

He despised the trivialization of higher education, the inflated grades and cheapened diplomas, the half education that so often passed as mass education in my generation.

From "Hunger of Memory" by Richard Rodriguez