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irrelevancy

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


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Wedged in the tiny space between irrelevancy and timeliness, Sorkin’s companion piece doesn’t need to say anything new to do its job.

From Salon ● Oct. 11, 2026

Instead of celebrating Boston’s 18th championship, Smart languished between injuries and irrelevancy.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 22, 2026

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

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 Edward Abbott Parry

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

For the moment, extenuating irrelevancies were to be the order of the day.

From A Knight on Wheels by Ian Hay


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