pooh-pooh
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Try as the studios might to pooh-pooh the possibility of artificial intelligence taking over work formerly done by writers and actors, their own high-level AI-related job postings give them away.
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 3, 2023
“I used to pooh-pooh all that anxiety stuff and think you can get through this. And then I went through the divorce.”
From New York Times • May 10, 2022
When Utah announced its score drops, a top education official there didn’t pooh-pooh them.
From Seattle Times • Jan. 20, 2022
On the other, your colleagues pooh-pooh you as pessimistic or even neurotic.
From Salon • Dec. 17, 2021
Initially, President Eisenhower tried to pooh-pooh the Russians’ “small ball in the air” as an insignificant achievement, but the American people would have none of it.
From "Hidden Figures" by Margot Lee Shetterly
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