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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.
These correlated improvements in fitness in novel environments suggest that adaptation to the laboratory environment was nonspecific and multifaceted, and seem to downplay the significance of the compromised fundamental niche.
However , the overall thrust of the portion of the Nixon Library document that interprets Nixon's remarks on "Jewish Americans" is indeed to downplay Nixon's comic-book anti-Semitism:
Why does the Post play up the closing of the gender gap but downplay the widening of the marriage gap?
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.