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irrelevancy

[ih-rel-uh-vuhn-see] / ɪˈrɛl ə vən si /


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At worst it seemed the project of a crank, at best an irrelevancy.

From The Wall Street Journal Feb. 27, 2026

Last year's contestant Francesca was hardly visible in the first few episodes, even prompting memes about her supposed irrelevancy, before growing into the show and making it to the final.

From BBC May 14, 2025

He wanted to put that into practice, Russian commentators said, and as an activist who thrived on agitation, he feared sinking into irrelevancy in exile.

From New York Times Feb. 17, 2024

As the defending Super Bowl champion Rams sank deeper and deeper into irrelevancy during their lost season, one thing remained constant.

From Los Angeles Times Jan. 8, 2023

For centuries the King’s Bench judges have worked off their natural irrelevancy in charging the grand juries at assize towns to the great benefit of themselves and the local papers.

From The Law and the Poor by Parry, Edward Abbott

They no longer stop and start it with their petty irrelevancies and VAR is less inclined to interfere.

From BBC Aug. 22, 2022

HealthMap tries to address this problem by using artificial intelligence to filter out repetition and irrelevancies.

From Scientific American Mar. 30, 2020

The trivia piles up; it’s a lawn sale of irrelevancies.

From New York Times Mar. 23, 2020

The ASRM’s pitch to legislators bristles with irrelevancies and misleading claims.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 23, 2019

We talked irrelevancies for a moment more—the passion of the convolvulus moth for petunias, and the other flowers the different sorts of moths and butterflies preferred.

From My Little Sister by Robins, Elizabeth




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