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
The aids are comfortable enough physically, but so acoustically troubled as to make that largely irrelevant.
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Christopher Null, WIRED, 14 Feb. 2025
That same argument has been irrelevant to Native Americans since 1924, when President Calvin Coolidge signed the Indian Citizenship Act, establishing Native American citizenship as statute.
—Jessica Boehm, Axios, 10 Feb. 2025
But the minimum wage in Pennsylvania is almost irrelevant because of today’s labor market.
—Paul F. Clark, The Conversation, 29 Jan. 2025
Utilitarianism has died a rough death in the content mines, because views equal money, and if the pursuit of views is unchecked by ethics, then other people’s privacy becomes irrelevant.
—Kelsey McKinney, Rolling Stone, 8 Feb. 2025
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Christopher Null, WIRED, 14 Feb. 2025
That same argument has been irrelevant to Native Americans since 1924, when President Calvin Coolidge signed the Indian Citizenship Act, establishing Native American citizenship as statute.
—Jessica Boehm, Axios, 10 Feb. 2025
But the minimum wage in Pennsylvania is almost irrelevant because of today’s labor market.
—Paul F. Clark, The Conversation, 29 Jan. 2025
Utilitarianism has died a rough death in the content mines, because views equal money, and if the pursuit of views is unchecked by ethics, then other people’s privacy becomes irrelevant.
—Kelsey McKinney, Rolling Stone, 8 Feb. 2025
See All Example Sentences for irrelevant
Recent Examples of Synonyms for irrelevant
Adjective
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These were not the actions of a man who considered the game meaningless.—
Arpon Basu,
The Athletic,
17 Feb. 2025
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In the publishing industry, blurbs are somehow both incredibly important and also meaningless, given that most blurbs come through a system that connects the blurber and the book’s author, rather than being an independent, uncompromised judgment.—
John Warner,
Chicago Tribune,
8 Feb. 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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The brand’s green values also drive the aesthetics — the clothing is stylish, and there’s not a lot of excess fabric, or extraneous detail.—
Samantha Conti,
WWD,
30 Jan. 2025
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There is no need for this extraneous material; the focus should’ve remained on the operation itself.—
Murtada Elfadl,
Variety,
7 Sep. 2024
Adjective
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In the Milky Way’s galactic magnetic field, the force is so weak that a standard compass would be virtually useless.—
Jake Parks,
Discover Magazine,
21 Feb. 2025
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Several pharmacists in São Paulo repeatedly stressed that just a few hours at room temperature renders the medications useless.—
Flávia Milhorance,
New York Times,
15 Feb. 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
Adjective
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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 3 Mar. 2025.
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