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  • verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of minimalize.

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  • The sterile, tidy world of the person who ‘minimalizes’ would be, for him, one that denied our essential dependence upon things, much as if one were to decide against the emotional clutter of long-term committed relationships because of the essential complicatedness, the necessary messiness and crowdedness that comes with plus-ones and - twos and - threes (or more).

    Of Shoes And Ships And Sealing Wax And Hoarding Stuff And Things | Her Bad Mother 2009

  • It doesn't completely fix the issue but it minimalizes it quite a bit. starscream9289

    James Cameron’s Avatar: Ten New Featurettes Revealed in “Interactive Trailer” | /Film 2009

  • Olbermann minimalizes and makes light of the issue of the flow of millions of illegal aliens into America annually despite the many well-documented reports proving millions of illegal aliens are lowering American wages and harming local communities.

    What Hillary and Obama DIDN'T Say 2008

  • I think calling him a puppet minimalizes his culpability.

    Think Progress » BREAKING: Former Enron CEO Ken Lay is dead. 2006

  • It seems to me that an individual employee had a personsal problem with Mrs. Gillette breastfeeding her daughter on that flight and that Delta specifically trains their employees to respond to such situations in a manner which minimalizes or negates their corporate responsibility.

    Boobs Kick Breasts Off Plane; Nation Saved 2006

  • Given the gross inequalities that still exist in our society, “Black racism” and claims of such by Whites minimalizes racism and its impact in our society.

    Intra-Black Racism and Identity Politics 2005

  • He minimalizes his true humanity by putting too much importance on physical appearance.

    FlickFilosopher.com 2009

  • Although the Calderon administration minimalizes the return migration, estimating that no more than 200,000 workers will come home to Mexico in coming months, many immigration watchers are calculating that the numbers could stretch into the millions.

    WHAT REALLY HAPPENED 2008

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