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Media pundits and politicians point to trivial decreases in the headline unemployment rate as evidence of economic recovery.
There are several lessons to be learned from this incident, some trivial, some quite important.
Very often qualitative studies seem to be full of apparently trivial details.
But, of course, the fact is that offences range from the trivial to the serious.
And the pressure to conform to all these trivial values is absolutely enormous.
The answers might be of trivial importance now, but someday it could be lifesaving.
Even if the case is of very little importance, involving trivial loss, seeking truth from facts shall always be the norm for action.
He handed out yellow cards for trivial offences, but ignored several dangerous tackles.
This lack of context is unfortunate, given the amount of space devoted to a plethora of more peripheral or trivial details.
It does not matter that the offences are trivial or made under the immunity perhaps conferred by the Senate in the course of an inquiry.
But it is sad that the media has been highlighting trivial events while ignoring important health issues.
That suggests the possibility of anything but a trivial role for land value taxation in many of the rich countries.
She had a light touch and a way of painting a portrait through a million trivial details that seems very contemporary.
Sorting out the important from the trivial adds to good management of matters.
A plethora of issues, both important as well as trivial, have had an effect on the public opinion.
A few hecklers managed to get in during this period but they were quite trivial.
Mary is an amiable, conventional, and trivial young woman who gets married.
She began to yell at Ryan for some trivial thing, and he tuned it out as he held his daughter on his lap.
These punishments were usually for trivial offences such as dirty boots, brasses, or badly blancoed kit.
Ack, it sounds so silly and trivial now, but I was literally shaking with rage at the time.
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Examples from Classical Literature
They sting, as their trivial name indicates, like a nettle when incautiously touched.
These trivial differences are not usually considered sufficient to justify the division of the barn owl into two species.
These certainly were far from being trivial satisfactions, and barye had also reaped a harvest of even subtler joys.
In comparison with that other matter this affair of the candidature was of course trivial.
This naove veracity of self-presentation is attainable by the slenderest talent on the most trivial occasions.
Grant laid a finger upon his arm and drawled his solution of a trivial mystery.
Determining the paths of an e-mail message is trivial for a machine, but almost impossible for a human being.
Some of these are trivial slips that a scribe copying B might emend on his own initiative, or perhaps by a lucky mistake.
Surely God did not endue us with the power of hoping that we might fling it all away on trivial, transient things.
Its poise and equability began to grow trivial, its exalted familiarity to become mere vulgarity.
John himself had delayed its fulfilment from one trivial cause after another.
But the loss of her mother was to Hetty a trivial one, in comparison with the loss of her father.
It depends for its effect, not upon ornament, which perforce appears trivial and inapposite, but upon its mass.
The stimulation of fireworks, or of kaleidoscopic effects, seems to us trivial.
To say in a law court that the objection is immaterial is otherwise to say that it is trivial.
Under this trivial name is known one of the most singular forms of plant-life.
The trivial name purpurea is not a very happy one, for the blossoms though generally purple, are sometimes of a pure white.
Targioni does not think that it is of ancient date in Italy,477 and the trivial name trafoglio strengthens his opinion.
The trivial name of the Cyprinus auratus, one of the most superb of the finny tribe.
It has received its trivial name from the constant vibration which, when reposing, it imparts to its wings.
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