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Example sentences for: downplays

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(Needless to say, any time a CEO downplays her own talent, it's nice, but still ...)
Diaz also gets Stark to say that Metabolife's labeling "could be misleading" because it downplays the fact that it's been tested on lab animals, not humans.
And the movie occasionally downplays Kaufman's part in bringing about his own professional decline.
In a reefer, the Post downplays Bradley's health problem.
He downplays the importance of arms control, stressing instead the need for non-proliferation, anti-missile systems, and the safe storage of existing nuclear weapons.