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as in minor
lacking importance
that's an inconsequential problem compared to the other issues
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2
as in nominal
so small or unimportant as to warrant little or no attention
an inconsequential error that does nothing to lessen the value of the report
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3
as in unreasonable
not using or following good reasoning
an inconsequential line of argument that did little to further the prosecution's case
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Recent Examples of inconsequential
Although Mansfield Legacy can finish the regular season with the same record as North Crowley, the records will be inconsequential due to the split-division playoff format.
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Charles Baggarly, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 3 Feb. 2025
Most pitchers with Verlander’s credentials wouldn’t give much consideration to an inconsequential home run in February.
—Justice Delos Santos, The Mercury News, 24 Feb. 2025
Yet one of the most admirable aspects of the film is its refusal to dwell in the frilly, inconsequential territory where many buddy comedies centered on women find themselves.
—Emma Specter, Vogue, 22 Jan. 2025
For now, the videos people have made featuring them appear to be rather juvenile and inconsequential.
—Emily Forlini, PCMAG, 10 Feb. 2025
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Charles Baggarly, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 3 Feb. 2025
Most pitchers with Verlander’s credentials wouldn’t give much consideration to an inconsequential home run in February.
—Justice Delos Santos, The Mercury News, 24 Feb. 2025
Yet one of the most admirable aspects of the film is its refusal to dwell in the frilly, inconsequential territory where many buddy comedies centered on women find themselves.
—Emma Specter, Vogue, 22 Jan. 2025
For now, the videos people have made featuring them appear to be rather juvenile and inconsequential.
—Emily Forlini, PCMAG, 10 Feb. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for inconsequential
Adjective
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Aftershocks are typically minor adjustments along the portion of a fault that slipped at the time of the initial earthquake.—
William B. Davis,
New York Times,
28 Mar. 2025
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Three other family members, two children and one 19-year-old, suffered minor wounds.—
Robert A. Cronkleton,
Kansas City Star,
27 Mar. 2025
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According to expert estimates, India needs to spend around $100 billion per year, or 2.8% of current nominal GDP, to achieve net-zero power sector emissions by 2070.—
Radhika Kak, independent researcher at Harvard Business School and Varad Pande, partner at BCG,
CNBC,
20 Mar. 2025
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Here’s why: Although technical specifications are still being worked out, the new standard could deliver nominal peak data rates of more than 40Gbps.—
PCMAG,
PCMAG,
20 Mar. 2025
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The words were harsh but the logic was not unreasonable.—
George Caulkin,
The Athletic,
24 Mar. 2025
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This would not be an unreasonable proposition, considering the U.S. already pledged a security guarantee to Ukraine upon its return of all nuclear warheads to Russia by 1996, based on the Budapest Memorandum on Security Assurances.—
Seung-Whan Choi,
Chicago Tribune,
23 Mar. 2025
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The Liberals' smallest lead was in a poll conducted by Innovative Research among 1,548 Canadian citizens, which showed the party with a lead of just 2 points, on 36 percent to the Conservatives' 34 percent—a lead within the poll's 3 percent margin of error.—
Paul Du Quenoy,
MSNBC Newsweek,
27 Mar. 2025
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The penumbra also barely grazes South America, producing a small dent in the Sun at sunrise for parts of Suriname, French Guiana and Amada in Brazil.—
Joe Rao,
Space.com,
26 Mar. 2025
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International museums in 2024 collectively experienced a slight dip in attendance that marks a return to normalcy in the wake of the Covid-19 crisis, the Art Newspaper reports.—
News Desk,
Artforum,
1 Apr. 2025
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Good Night and Good Luck, starring George Clooney, was the highest grossing show on Broadway again last week, even as its grosses took a slight dip.—
Caitlin Huston,
HollywoodReporter,
1 Apr. 2025
Adjective
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But there is plenty of institutional trading interest in digital assets, perhaps in part because for many hedge funds volatility equates to profit making opportunities, even if the trading is irrational.—
Javier Paz,
Forbes.com,
29 Mar. 2025
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Amsterdam set up a hotline last month to report concerns about irrational behavior.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
28 Mar. 2025
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Governed by a growth mindset devoted to the logic of disruption, moving fast and breaking things, a flourishing structure of feeling about AI and art history has sprung up on the grounds of very little AI-and-art-history to have feelings about.—
Sonja Drimmer,
Artforum,
1 Apr. 2025
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Shark Robot Vacuum/Mop Deals The Shark Matrix Plus 2-in-1 Robot Vacuum & Mop is one smart little robot.—
Carlos Mejia,
PC Magazine,
31 Mar. 2025
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What’s at risk The impact of an output such as calling a blueberry muffin a chihuahua may seem trivial, but consider the different kinds of technologies that use image recognition systems: An autonomous vehicle that fails to identify objects could lead to a fatal traffic accident.—
Anna Choi,
The Conversation,
21 Mar. 2025
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The under-the-table payments at the center of the case, which involved sums of up to $100,000, now seem trivial in comparison to the rapidly escalating figures involved in today’s NIL economy.—
Daniel Libit,
Sportico.com,
13 Mar. 2025
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“Inconsequential.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/inconsequential. Accessed 5 Apr. 2025.
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