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Six example sentences with belittle, each labelled with its topic.
The nurse warned trainees never to belittle a patient's reported pain, since a mild description can hide a serious problem.
Medicine
Officials tried to belittle the flooding as a minor drainage issue until photographs of the submerged high street circulated.
Politics
Beginners often belittle the warm-up, treating ten easy minutes as wasted time until a cold hamstring teaches them otherwise.
Fitness
The quarterly report tried to belittle the recall as a minor adjustment, though it had cost the company a full month of sales.
Business
The vendor belittled the outage as a brief hiccup, but customers had been locked out for six hours.
Technology
The coach refused to belittle the loss, telling reporters a twenty-point defeat at home was exactly as bad as it looked.
Basketball
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