irrelevant

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Speaking from the Oval Office on Tuesday, Trump said Iran is "begging to make a deal" but whether it happens or not is "irrelevant" to America's timetable.

From BBC • Mar. 31, 2026

And important science does not become irrelevant on the scale of years.

From Science Daily • Mar. 29, 2026

On the related but perhaps irrelevant question of individual character, the evidence is clear: Wilhelm II was an unstable and vainglorious idiot who wound up in the wrong place at the wrong time.

From Salon • Mar. 15, 2026

But in the long term, it may be irrelevant.

From Barron's • Mar. 13, 2026

The course of the war had outrun work on the bomb, rendering the Allied scientists’ concerns about a Nazi bomb program increasingly irrelevant.

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik