irrelevance

Example Sentences

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"And the US threatens to relegate the organisation to even greater irrelevance if it doesn't get what it wants," she told AFP.

From Barron's • Mar. 27, 2026

The whole enterprise of the Olympics risked sliding into irrelevance.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 15, 2026

PayPal now has “institutional irrelevance among top merchants,” he wrote in a Tuesday blog post.

From MarketWatch • Feb. 4, 2026

The Golden Globes have long been excused for their scandals and idiosyncratic membership and, of course, mocked for their irrelevance.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 8, 2025

The shell was interesting and pretty and a worthy plaything; but the vivid phantoms of his day-dream still interposed between him and Piggy, who in this context was an irrelevance.

From "Lord of the Flies" by William Golding