1
as in minor
lacking importance
why spend so much time on trivial decisions, like whether the soda should be regular or diet?
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2
as in slight
so small or unimportant as to warrant little or no attention
figured that restaurant customers wouldn't notice such a trivial surcharge on their bill
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Recent Examples of trivial
Any defection over the most trivial procedural or legislative matters could block the party's agenda.
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G. Elliott Morris, ABC News, 7 Jan. 2025
For investors, this means that meaningful financial updates from companies will be accompanied by mountains of trivial environmental data.
—Stone Washington, National Review, 31 Dec. 2024
However, Persona 5 is a very high-end game from a visual standpoint, so its budget will not have been trivial.
—Ollie Barder, Forbes, 28 Dec. 2024
Also, this expenditure seems trivial compared to your wife's sudden need for surgery to fix a medical problem.
—Tom Rogers, Newsweek, 26 Dec. 2024
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G. Elliott Morris, ABC News, 7 Jan. 2025
For investors, this means that meaningful financial updates from companies will be accompanied by mountains of trivial environmental data.
—Stone Washington, National Review, 31 Dec. 2024
However, Persona 5 is a very high-end game from a visual standpoint, so its budget will not have been trivial.
—Ollie Barder, Forbes, 28 Dec. 2024
Also, this expenditure seems trivial compared to your wife's sudden need for surgery to fix a medical problem.
—Tom Rogers, Newsweek, 26 Dec. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for trivial
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By actively hiring individuals with prior convictions, corporations can take a meaningful step toward economic justice, ensuring that those who were once punished for minor drug offenses have a chance to rebuild their lives.—
Summer Westerbur,
Rolling Stone,
27 Jan. 2025
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Although it’s injured after escaping from one of the traps, Yuri manages to bond with the little critter and treat its minor lacerations after smuggling him home in her backpack.—
Justin Lowe,
The Hollywood Reporter,
27 Jan. 2025
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That slight warming trend is expected to continue Friday, when high temperatures reach the upper 30s, with lows in the upper teens.—
Matt Hubbard,
Baltimore Sun,
19 Jan. 2025
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The snow started falling Sunday afternoon, with a slight mix of hail.—
Joseph Wilkinson,
New York Daily News,
19 Jan. 2025
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Sitting in front of local leaders, Trump again wrongly blamed elements of the fire disaster on a lack of water resources coming from the Delta and environmental protections for the delta smelt, a small fish near extinction that has become a symbol of GOP frustration.—
Ari Plachta,
Sacramento Bee,
25 Jan. 2025
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Imagine rewiring your belief in yourself even on a small stage, but in front of millions.—
Matthew Futterman,
The Athletic,
25 Jan. 2025
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The object of their largesse was an obscure nonprofit called the Los Angeles Fire Department Foundation which, for the better part of two decades, had quietly helped firefighters by raising funds for equipment — often things as nominal as gloves and flashlights — not covered in the city budget.—
David Wharton,
Los Angeles Times,
20 Jan. 2025
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Ever since, however, TCU has started three wings alongside Van Lith and Sedona Prince, once again making the fifth-year senior the nominal point guard.—
Sabreena Merchant,
The Athletic,
20 Jan. 2025
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The summer of 2020 did little to allay those fears: Inexperienced intelligence officers from the agency were deployed to Portland, Ore., to compile dossiers on people protesting against police violence.—
Eileen Sullivan,
New York Times,
18 Jan. 2025
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The John McDonough creation, which has ignited a slew of copycats since the inaugural fan fest in 1986, is a marketing tool like no other, changing little over the years.—
Paul Sullivan,
Chicago Tribune,
18 Jan. 2025
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Organized theft is no petty crime; these are not one-off crimes of desperation or a mom lifting a can of formula to feed her baby.—
Cailey Locklair,
Baltimore Sun,
27 Jan. 2025
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In November 2023, Pryer filed a motion to terminate her remaining two years of probation based on a recent court ruling which held that a defendant convicted of a single petty offense may not be sentenced to both imprisonment and probation.—
Judy L. Thomas,
Kansas City Star,
22 Jan. 2025
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Demonizing the delta smelt was — and is — a way to make facile points to uninformed voters by suggesting that the interests of what appears to be an unimportant fish are somehow elevated above those of human residents.—
Michael Hiltzik,
Los Angeles Times,
14 Jan. 2025
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Again, there’s a moon get-out clause here; our natural satellite is so bright that the size of the objective lens is less unimportant.—
Jamie Carter,
Space.com,
9 Jan. 2025
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The symbolism of having the speech in a space desecrated by a small but not insignificant number of Trump supporters on Jan. 6, 2021, has been lost on nobody.—
Daniel Fienberg,
The Hollywood Reporter,
20 Jan. 2025
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But prosecutor Scheller argued that the earlier injury was insignificant.—
Erin Moriarty,
CBS News,
18 Jan. 2025
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“Trivial.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/trivial. Accessed 1 Feb. 2025.
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