as in irrelevance
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Recent Examples of irrelevancy
Combustible pundit Nancy Grace has long languished in YouTube irrelevancy, but her hyper-sensational show makes a fitting vehicle for this white-hot topic.
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Joe Berkowitz, Vulture, 15 Dec. 2024
Does Anthony Davis really want to spend the rest of his prime in the shadows of irrelevancy?
—Bill Plaschke, Los Angeles Times, 9 Dec. 2024
Despite Chutkan’s statement about irrelevancy, the Jan. 6 criminal case and the 2024 presidential election are linked by one person — Donald Trump.
—Michael McAuliffe, Sun Sentinel, 17 Sep. 2024
This takes me to my second point, namely that an AI-based chain-of-thought should be explicitly designed and constructed to rapidly distinguish relevancy versus irrelevancy.
—Lance Eliot, Forbes, 27 Sep. 2024
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Joe Berkowitz, Vulture, 15 Dec. 2024
Does Anthony Davis really want to spend the rest of his prime in the shadows of irrelevancy?
—Bill Plaschke, Los Angeles Times, 9 Dec. 2024
Despite Chutkan’s statement about irrelevancy, the Jan. 6 criminal case and the 2024 presidential election are linked by one person — Donald Trump.
—Michael McAuliffe, Sun Sentinel, 17 Sep. 2024
This takes me to my second point, namely that an AI-based chain-of-thought should be explicitly designed and constructed to rapidly distinguish relevancy versus irrelevancy.
—Lance Eliot, Forbes, 27 Sep. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for irrelevancy
irrelevance
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The Hughes dynamic raises those stakes further, stoking fears of a club that never really emerged from the unintentional Jim Benning era rebuild and could already be headed inexorably back into the relative irrelevance that the Canucks have largely toiled under for the past decade and a half.—
Thomas Drance,
New York Times,
30 Apr. 2025
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Conversely, rigid leadership structures often lead to stagnation, making brands and organizations vulnerable to irrelevance.—
Jeetendr Sehdev,
Forbes,
26 Feb. 2025
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“Irrelevancy.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/irrelevancy. Accessed 5 Jun. 2025.
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