as in meaningless
not having anything to do with the matter at hand
irrelevant questions that merely disrupted the classroom lesson
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Recent Examples of irrelevant
Meta has a policy against paying for content its fact-checkers label as false, but that rule will become irrelevant when the company stops working with them.
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Craig Silverman, ProPublica, 24 Feb. 2025
They are not scheduled to meet again, rendering the viewership irrelevant to any assessment of NIU’s future media value.
—Jon Wilner, The Mercury News, 20 Feb. 2025
That is so completely irrelevant to the conversation at hand.
—Zach Harper, The Athletic, 20 Feb. 2025
However, whether the series went downhill afterward is, frankly, irrelevant to the masterpiece that is the first 12 episodes.
—EW.com, 19 Feb. 2025
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Craig Silverman, ProPublica, 24 Feb. 2025
They are not scheduled to meet again, rendering the viewership irrelevant to any assessment of NIU’s future media value.
—Jon Wilner, The Mercury News, 20 Feb. 2025
That is so completely irrelevant to the conversation at hand.
—Zach Harper, The Athletic, 20 Feb. 2025
However, whether the series went downhill afterward is, frankly, irrelevant to the masterpiece that is the first 12 episodes.
—EW.com, 19 Feb. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for irrelevant
Adjective
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If Missouri were to abolish state income taxes, tax credits would become meaningless.—
Jeremy Kohler,
ProPublica,
5 Mar. 2025
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Xavier is headed out of the silo Xavier was always going to leave the silo to try to find his wife, despite a brief tryst with Sinatra's therapist, Dr. Gabriela Torabi (Sarah Shahi), that wound up being meaningless from both a plot and character perspective.—
Eliana Dockterman,
TIME,
4 Mar. 2025
Adjective
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For the years ended December 31, 2024, and 2023, the amounts received were immaterial.—
Shivaram Rajgopal,
Forbes,
21 Feb. 2025
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Meanwhile, forwards Matthew Tkachuk and Auston Matthews sat out the team’s otherwise immaterial 2-1 loss to Sweden out of an abundance of caution, and Brady Tkachuk left the game in the middle of the first period after crashing into the cage.—
Anthony Crupi,
Sportico.com,
19 Feb. 2025
Adjective
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These are responses that may sound correct at first, but turn out to be wrong (like your crazy uncle’s Thanksgiving table advice), often due to inapplicable or inaccurate information being used to train the models.—
Dean DeBiase,
Forbes,
25 Nov. 2024
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Pavia could argue Bewley is inapplicable since while the Bewley brothers were paid to play in OTE, there is no comparable point for Pavia.—
Michael McCann,
Sportico.com,
24 Nov. 2024
Adjective
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Porcelain War shows us how the vision of artists is never extraneous, least of all in wartime.—
Stephanie Zacharek,
TIME,
2 Mar. 2025
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And dissection of a batting order can be extraneous.—
Kevin Acee,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
28 Feb. 2025
Adjective
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Those assets are useless on a device like the Deck, and take up unnecessary space.—
Jason Evangelho,
Forbes,
6 Mar. 2025
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In stereotypical rich-TV-family fashion, the ultimate symbol of Baba’s success is that both of his sons are sort of useless.—
Angie Han,
The Hollywood Reporter,
5 Mar. 2025
Adjective
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Some praised the Hitch star for looking happy and returning to music, while others said that the onstage moment of attempting to kiss Martinez was inappropriate.—
David Faris,
Newsweek,
27 Feb. 2025
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Doing so discourages inappropriate behavior with clear sanctions that are duly communicated to the entire organization, while good behavior is rewarded.—
Susana Sierra,
Forbes,
27 Feb. 2025
Adjective
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Cocky, opinionated, and flippant, Jimmy might as well be every foreigner’s idea of what those impertinent cowboy Americans are like.—
Tim Grierson,
Vulture,
14 July 2024
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In the late Eighties, Ernst Jorgensen, then an executive at a BMG affiliate in Denmark, raised an impertinent question in an international meeting.—
Brian Hiatt,
Rolling Stone,
22 Oct. 2024
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The Supreme Court indeed raised Flood and explained the cases were, at best, inapposite.—
Marc Edelman,
Forbes,
21 June 2021
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Then there is Beinart’s inapposite comparison between this president’s rhetoric on these themes and the rhetoric of President George W. Bush.—
Daniel Foster,
The Atlantic,
10 July 2017
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“Irrelevant.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/irrelevant. Accessed 13 Mar. 2025.
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