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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.
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.
But a glance back at the Nixon Library's Web site reminds Chatterbox that for the Nixon Library, the fundraising (hence the need to downplay controversy) never stops.
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.
Another question: It's bad enough that the law tends to downplay these cases, but why don't the papers make more of being willing to kill service members to make a profit?