as in trifles
something of little importance
the question of who will pick up the coffee is a mere bagatelle in the overall planning of the conference
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But in the past year, the scope of insider trading has grown to unprecedented levels thanks to new platforms like Kalshi and Polymarket that offer bets on everything from major world events to celebrity trifles.—
Jeff John Roberts,
Fortune,
2 Apr. 2026 -
Treaties were trifles compared to armies and bullets.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
23 Feb. 2026
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Still, his colleagues spent hours searching for him, peering through a haze of radioactive steam and smoke that would eventually kill some of them.—
Lizzie Johnson,
New Yorker,
25 Apr. 2026
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The Pink Jet is an all-female flight crew on a mission as their bright pink Albatros fighter jet soars through the sky, spitting out pink smoke with pilots dressed in pink flight suits.—
Ashley Sharp,
CBS News,
25 Apr. 2026
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The songs were radiant, ecstatic, and cleansing, a deep exhale from a band freed from boardroom expectations.—
Dan Stahl,
New Yorker,
1 May 2026
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Were these new songs recorded at the same time as the first batch?—
Mikael Wood,
Los Angeles Times,
30 Apr. 2026
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Work fewer than 35 years and the SSA plugs zeros into the missing slots, which drags your benefit down.—
Allison Palmer,
Charlotte Observer,
28 Apr. 2026
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This approach involves befriending the zeros inside large AI models.—
Olivia Hsu,
IEEE Spectrum,
28 Apr. 2026
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“Bagatelles.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/bagatelles. Accessed 1 May. 2026.
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