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Example sentences for: downplay

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Inaccuracies like those discussed above, which downplay the dangers in drug use, send our young people mixed messages and increase distrust.
Microsoft is widely suspected to harbor ambitions of world conquest, but it was Chatterbox's impression that the company wished to downplay any such ambitions while Judge Jackson considered whether to break it up into itty-bitty pieces.
Explanations involving ecological mechanisms often downplay the significance of such regional differences and give most attention to covariation between current diversity and variables such as energy and water availability, and to the ultimate mechanisms underlying this covariation (Hawkins et al.
Unfortunately, though not surprisingly, Fiorina has taken pains to downplay the last fact.
The increasingly sad straits of those at or near the bottom of the economy is not the only report topic that the Post chooses to downplay.