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Recent Examples of inconsequential For now, the videos people have made featuring them appear to be rather juvenile and inconsequential. Emily Forlini, PCMAG, 10 Feb. 2025 Of course, the whole scenario is fictional, and so coming to this conclusion might seem sort of inconsequential. Mallory Arnold, Outside Online, 8 Feb. 2025 Economists and policy experts, however, are less enthused, calling the idea unfair, costly and inconsequential to most lower-income Americans. Bailey Schulz, USA TODAY, 7 Feb. 2025 The commissioner’s $15 million discretionary fund is one, but relatively inconsequential. Ken Rosenthal, The Athletic, 5 Jan. 2025 See All Example Sentences for inconsequential
Recent Examples of Synonyms for inconsequential
Adjective
  • According to a statement from the Danville Police Department, the drivers of both vehicles suffered minor injuries, while two other passengers in the truck were unhurt.
    Rick Hurd, The Mercury News, 4 Mar. 2025
  • The cab driver suffered minor back and neck injuries in the crash and claimed Zangrilli was drunk but the responding officer sent the inspector on his way, telling the cabbie to file an accident report at an NYPD precinct.
    Thomas Tracy, New York Daily News, 4 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • Recommendations from the Department of Government Efficiency, which Trump says Musk heads despite another nominal administrator, led to firing tens of thousands of workers and targeted more.
    Joey Garrison, USA TODAY, 9 Mar. 2025
  • The exposures listed on the initial holdings list do add up to more than 100%, with nominal bonds as the biggest category.
    Jesse Pound, CNBC, 6 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • But the comparison of the former Pac-12 to the new Pac-12 isn’t unreasonable, either.
    Jon Wilner, The Mercury News, 3 Mar. 2025
  • Reasons to hire Gen Z include their focus on balance and staying grounded—which have the benefit of reducing burnout or unreasonable expectations.
    Tracy Brower, Forbes, 2 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • Despite being a very small heavyweight at 210 pounds, sophomore Daniel Moylan, took third at 285.
    Kevin J. Farmer, San Diego Union-Tribune, 2 Mar. 2025
  • Beneath that ice, the light sensors recorded an astronomically small number of photons: an upper range of 0.04 micromoles per square meter per second, a number very close to the theoretical minimum amount of light that photosynthesis can run on.
    Asher Elbein, WIRED, 2 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • Freud’s notion of remembering, the inexact reiteration of what came before, is where creativity emerges—that slight drift from the original that lets something unlikely slip in.
    Namwali Serpell, The New Yorker, 8 Mar. 2025
  • Sugarcane honey is a concentrated form of sugarcane juice that has a slight licorice taste and a touch of bitterness.
    Joseph V Micallef, Forbes, 8 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • Friedrich Nietzsche's idea of rationality, Apollonian, and the irrational passion, defined as Dionysian, have always been a sort of philosophical guide for Murano; his way of conceiving fashion.
    Alberto Calabrese, Vogue, 4 Mar. 2025
  • There’s a philosophical view, best associated with the scholar L. A. Paul, that the decision to have children is fundamentally irrational.
    Gideon Lewis-Kraus, The New Yorker, 24 Feb. 2025
Adjective
  • In many cases, these communities had gotten little federal attention for generations, Ortiz said.
    Zoë Schlanger, The Atlantic, 7 Mar. 2025
  • But these little twinges the audience might feel about everyone being mortal only added, if anything, to the evening’s personal potency, and the vitality of a reconvening of the tribe that supported the Wilson sisters from the outset, along with strays picked up during the MTV years.
    Chris Willman, Variety, 7 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • Given this, there is no straightforward way to understand what a model is doing on an intuitive level, as from our perspective running inference on a model is nothing more than executing trillions of trivial operations such as addition and multiplication.
    Rahul Gudise, Forbes, 7 Mar. 2025
  • And figuring out that amount was not a trivial task.
    Jayson Stewart, IEEE Spectrum, 5 Mar. 2025

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“Inconsequential.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/inconsequential. Accessed 14 Mar. 2025.

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