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What does downplaying mean?

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  1. present participle of downplay
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Military doctrine of the time emphasized massed rifle fire, downplaying marksmanship.
Those are things that will be missed in the downplaying of conveyancing to conveyancers rather than lawyers.
The modernist whiteness of the walls, a classic ploy for downplaying the surface, becomes painful after a while.
And he is having none of what he sees as kidology from the other side, downplaying their chances.
Combat practice has on many occasions shown the erroneousness of views downplaying the role of the defense.
After all, as the hospitals themselves concede in downplaying their chargemasters, these insurance prices are the ones that affect most patients.

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