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Definition of Downplayed
1. downplay [v] - See also: downplay
Lexicographical Neighbors of Downplayed
Literary usage of Downplayed
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Comprehensive Everglades Restoration Plan: Additional Water Quality Projects by Barry Hill (2000)
"We did not intend to imply that the Corps and the state were either unaware of
or downplayed these uncertainties. However, we agree that the title could ..."
2. Medical Marijuana Referenda Movement in America: Hearing Before the edited by Bill McCollum (2001)
"... NORML and is an advocate of drug legalization—and I think that traditionally
the legalization lobby has downplayed the harmful effects of illegal drugs, ..."
3. Playing the "Communal Card": Communal Violence and Human Rights by Cynthia G. Brown, Farhad Karim (1995)
"For example, Croatian television downplayed ... The Bosnian government- controlled
television downplayed or failed to report abuses ..."
4. Failing the Internally Displaced: The UNDP Displaced Persons Programs in by Binaifer Nowrojee (1997)
"UNDP continually downplayed the need for accountability, portraying the problem
as one without victims and aggressors, but only communities that needed to ..."
5. Future Forsaken: Abuses Against Children Affected by HIV/AIDS in India by Zama Coursen-Neff (2004)
"Most state officials whom we interviewed similarly downplayed incidents of
discrimination. For example, the deputy director of Andhra 272 Mehra, ..."
6. Human Rights Watch World Report 2000 by Human Rights Watch Staff, Human Rights Watch (Organization), Human Rights Watch (1999)
"Refugee women were often doubly vulnerable, confronting both their own dislocation
and lack of support as well as host country policies that downplayed ..."
7. U.s. Army's Transition to the All-volunteer Force, 1868-1974 by Robert K. Griffith, John Wyndham (FRW) Mountcastle, Robert K. Griffith, Jr. (1997)
"John Hougen, downplayed the direct role of the officers in the turnaround.
Hougen emphasized the officers' contribution to improved command management and ..."
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