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irrelevance

[ih-rel-uh-vuhns] / ɪˈrɛl ə vəns /


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Europe risks "total technological irrelevance" if it fails to develop sovereign capabilities, the head of Canadian AI startup Cohere warned Thursday on the sidelines of the Vivatech trade fair in Paris.

From Barron's Jun. 18, 2026

Or they retreated, following Macdonald’s advice, into social irrelevance by adopting dead-end pseudo-philosophies like deconstructionism.

From Salon Apr. 19, 2026

Boatwright would be wise to heed this history and either take Chipotle into new frontiers or prepare for its inevitable irrelevance.

From Los Angeles Times Feb. 19, 2026

The whole enterprise of the Olympics risked sliding into irrelevance.

From The Wall Street Journal Feb. 15, 2026

What dismays him most is the irrelevance of it all.

From "The Namesake" by Jhumpa Lahiri




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