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Six example sentences with trifling, each labelled with its topic.
Researchers who study procrastination describe trifling as a comfort behavior rather than a simple failure of willpower.
Psychology
Stoic letters treat trifling as the theft of one's own hours, a habit more damaging than any outside setback.
Philosophy
Two weeks of trifling with logo colors cost the team the pilot customer who had asked for a demo.
Startups
The manager counted a whole morning of trifling with slide templates, and the actual forecast was still not written.
Business
Half of my practice hour goes to trifling, noodling through old favorites instead of the passage that actually needs work.
Music
Speedrunners call any trifling in the starting village wasted seconds, and the timer does not care how charming the shops are.
Gaming
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