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1956 Foreign Affairs 34 681 A perceptible down-playing of Stalin's rôle, but the banner of Lenin remains invincible.

1977 N.Y. Times Mag. 16 Oct. 38/1 A downplaying of Bert Lance's problems.

2012 R. L. A. Clark in E. Gertsman & J. Stevenson Thresholds of Medieval Visual Culture iii. 256 The downplaying of sex or procreation..in its discussion of the pleasure..of married relations.