The best financial decisions of a lifetime are rarely about shares, funds or pensions, although we would never downplay the importance of traditional financial planning.

Some other schools of economic thought reject or downplay the importance of multiplier effects, particularly in terms of the long run.

Cave would later downplay the importance of the record, but said it helped the band develop musically.

The fact that it had an activist aspect allowed many people to downplay the importance of research published in the journal.

Downplaying the importance of the negotiations was also a deliberate strategy.