downplay

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Second, the stereotypes cause people to downplay or ignore domestic violence and related behaviors by women.

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  1. transitive verb To minimize the significance of; play down: downplayed the bad news.

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  • Mac Donald also gets to the root of the problem, one so many people tend to ignore or downplay: marriage. —  La Shawn Barber's Corner
  • The Kremlin is annoyed by this radar station because it would give the U.S. the capability to track every aircraft in Russian airspace all the way to the Urals -- a capability proponents of the system in Washington tend to downplay, since they prefer to portray Moscow as recalcitrant or paranoid for opposing it. —  Russia Blog
  • The dynamic architecture of IMS allows operators to offer promising new services more quickly, add resources for successful services as demand increases, and downplay or remove unsuccessful services easily.
  • AOL hopes that by creating sites that downplay-or even ignore, in most cases-the AOL brand, it can create more competitive sites that are attractive to advertisers and web users. —  Make Them Accountable
  • However, there's one area they're not about to downplay - how they distinguish themselves from the competition, the large wholesalers of fruits and vegetables who are able to give volume discounts. —  Greensboro Business News - Local Greensboro News | The Business Journal of the Greater Triad Area
 

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