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Example sentences for: downplaying

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We could present ourselves as the good guys--midwives to a historic settlement of health claims--while downplaying the role we played in minimizing (on our client's behalf) whatever sacrifice Big Tobacco had to make.
Up until this point he has been ignoring or downplaying the interdependence among modern nations.
News notes that 60 percent of U.S. pregnancies are unplanned, then slams doctors for downplaying effective contraceptives such as Depo-Provera, Norplant, and IUDs.
Just as old lefties could never concede that Alger Hiss was guilty and Kennedy hands must keep downplaying evidence of JFK's recklessness, they'll keep on spouting the spin.
Is The Post downplaying the Times scoop or did the NYT overplay its hand?