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pertinence

noun as in consistency

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Sometimes that’s because the individual work is bland, while elsewhere its pertinence to the shambling theme is stretched to the breaking point.

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He referenced the city’s founding by the Muscogee Creek native people, the area’s oil boom and the 1921 race massacre that only recently resurfaced in the national conversation as evidence of its cultural pertinence.

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What’s more, they’re intimately knowledgeable of history, able to yank references from the past and stress their pertinence to our present.

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The Reds' failed bid four years ago will be of most pertinence to the Gunners, given it was Manchester City, Arsenal's closest title rivals, who overhauled them.

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No one is questioning the legality or pertinence of allowing divergent viewpoints.

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