trivial detail

collocation in English

meaningsoftrivialanddetail

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trivial
adjective
uk
/ˈtrɪv.i.əl/us
/ˈtrɪv.i.əl/
having little value ...
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detail
noun
uk
/ˈdiː.teɪl/us
/dɪˈteɪl/us
/ˈdiː.teɪl/
a single piece of information or fact ...
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(Definition oftrivialanddetailfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesoftrivial detail

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I do not think that this is a matter oftrivialdetail; important principles are involved.
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But every week we had to send in a form in quintuplicate, stating in the mosttrivialdetailthe running form of all vehicles in the battalion.
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This can be notrivialdetail, no minor byproduct of mindless, purposeless forces.
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It was not relevant to the strike, but they thought that perhaps the police would not be aware of such trivial details.
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We are not talking about trivial details that are omitted; we are talking about the very essence of the scheme.
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You are sending some very trivial details to the county council.
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In such a short space of time some of the details, trivial details perhaps some of them were left to be settled subsequently.
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These are really not trivial details.
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No, these are not trivial details.
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These really are trivial details.
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Gruenwald was famous for a perfect recollection of even the most trivial details.
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Araki added that because of the importance of otherwise trivial details, this commentary became crucial to the development of the series.
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Puppeteers were willing to pay large sums of hush money in order to suppress even trivial details about their homeworld.
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Whilst it may be appropriate to expand the following summary, care should be taken not to give too much weight to trivial details.
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In all his biographies he insisted on including what others would have considered trivial details to fully describe the lives of his subjects.
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They all follow the same essential logic, although the trivial details of the output mask, such as punctuation, casing of titles, and italic, vary widely among them.
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