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Example sentences for: downplay

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This administration, just like its predecessors, wants people to look the other way, so it can downplay the story in the media and give implausible explanations for why a top level spy who provided nuclear munitions information to a hostile country should be fired from his job instead of being brought to trial!
Moreover, the magazine 1) dishonestly implies that Caltech, rather than the ranking formulas, have changed with the headline "Caltech Comes Out on Top"; 2) employs linguistic trickery to downplay how much the methodological flip-flop helped Caltech; and 3) fails to mention that Caltech probably declined in quality this year if the U.S.
If the economy is good, people will pay extra for gas, and what the Journal tends to downplay is that almost all the environmental controls implemented thus far have proven to be good for business.
Why does the Post play up the closing of the gender gap but downplay the widening of the marriage gap?
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.