Examples of downplay in a Sentence
Athletes often downplay their injuries.
he self-deprecatingly downplays his own contributions to the festival's success
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Trump, on the 2024 campaign trail, repeatedly downplayed ties to the controversial conservative playbook Project 2025, but now many of his second-term Administration’s policies mirror it.
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Chad De Guzman, Time, 28 Oct. 2025
Those concerns were anticipated by league commissioners in the early 1990s but downplayed by their successors.
—Michael McCann, Sportico.com, 28 Oct. 2025
Their influence could not be ignored or downplayed in any authentic representation of Lowcountry cooking.
—Adrian Miller, Southern Living, 28 Oct. 2025
However, the Russian leader has tried to downplay the impact of the sanctions.
—Timothy Nerozzi, The Washington Examiner, 24 Oct. 2025
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Chad De Guzman, Time, 28 Oct. 2025
Those concerns were anticipated by league commissioners in the early 1990s but downplayed by their successors.
—Michael McCann, Sportico.com, 28 Oct. 2025
Their influence could not be ignored or downplayed in any authentic representation of Lowcountry cooking.
—Adrian Miller, Southern Living, 28 Oct. 2025
However, the Russian leader has tried to downplay the impact of the sanctions.
—Timothy Nerozzi, The Washington Examiner, 24 Oct. 2025
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“Downplay.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/downplay. Accessed 29 Oct. 2025.
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