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Definition of Trivializes
1. trivialize [v] - See also: trivialize
Lexicographical Neighbors of Trivializes
Literary usage of Trivializes
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Prevention Plus II: Tools for Creating and Sustaining Drug-Free Communities (1994)
"Use the phrase, "to prevent alcohol and other drug problems" Mood-altering drugs
Mind-altering drugs Workaholic (Since it trivializes the alcohol dependence ..."
2. Rural Substance Abuse: State of Knowledge & Issues edited by Elizabeth B. Robertson (1999)
"Justifying and pursuing this broad goal solely in the name of AOD use prevention
therefore potentially trivializes its far-reaching importance In addition, ..."
3. Prevention Primer: An Encyclopedia of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Other Drug by DIANE Publishing Company (1995)
"Because drug use should not be considered recreational, avoid the term "recreational
use of drugs," which trivializes drug taking behavior. ..."
4. Issues of Curriculum Reform in Science, Mathematics and Higher Order by Ronald D. Anderson (1994)
"... it focuses on what can be easily tested, rather than what is meaningful; and
it trivializes learning by reducing the whole process to filling in ovoids. ..."
5. Emil Von Behring: Infectious Disease, Immunology, Serum Therapy by Derek S. Linton (2005)
"Still, this story should arouse suspicion both because of its made-for-the-media
melodramatic quality and because it trivializes the complexity of clinical ..."
6. Evaluating Local Economic and Employment Development: How to Assess What by Alistair Nolan, Ging Wong (2004)
"Yet there are grumblings that the focus on differential use somehow trivializes
evaluation. Thus we are often reminded of the higher purpose of evaluation. ..."
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