Sentence examples for downplays from inspiring English sources

"downplays" is a correct and usable word in written English
It is a verb meaning to "minimize the importance or seriousness of," as in "The president downplayed the danger of the virus."

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downplays

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Third person singular of downplay

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Barbara Among, a Ugandan journalist at the independent Daily Monitor said the video simplifies the war against Kony and downplays realities on the ground.

He downplays the benefits of China letting its undervalued exchange rate rise while arguing later that it must do so anyway.In short, Mr Spence has more questions than answers.

The problem arises if a CBO director is so wedded to supply-side theories that he or she downplays how tax cuts can widen the deficit.Correction: An earlier version of this article said that Mick Mulvaney was a representative from North Carolina.

And its government is well-off, getting revenue from an industrial free-trade zone sited in the middle of the rainforest.Mr Viana, who is no shrinking violet, rather downplays these particularities.

And although encouraging economists to engage more with the public may be a good thing, doing so in a way that downplays the practical constraints of policymaking is dangerous.

Today Wolfgang Schäuble, the finance minister, downplays the deflation threat.

But it also downplays the possibility that the left goes too far in that effort, straightjacketing the financial system with onerous regulation for years to come.Mr Mead is surely right that talk of the end of American capitalism is hysterical.

But Mr Sharp downplays comparisons with Britain's East India Company, which ran a private empire with its own navy.

They have agreed on a common platform, which downplays religion, criticises Dr Mahathir's fondness for grand projects and proposes a broad range of economic reforms, including a more open and competitive approach to privatisation (and so with less scope for patronage).

But, until you attain the privilege of voting here, your opinions will remain fundamentally irrelevant.Patrick CurryIrvine, CaliforniaSIR – Mr Bush's administration downplays the fact that, since time immemorial, torture has been standard operating procedure for military interrogators, despite the lack of evidence that it actually works.

What about the other possible flaw in the new report that it downplays the link between income (as opposed to inequality) and health?

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