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
But, in an athletic departments like UT, there are standards for every team and the men’s basketball program is trending towards irrelevant.
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Mac Engel, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 9 Mar. 2025
However, the fishermen suing Seafood Watch say that the group’s rating was based on irrelevant and outdated data, and that the industry has worked to modify its gear, The New York Times wrote.
—Tori Latham, Robb Report, 5 Mar. 2025
The fishermen who sued the nonprofit argued that Maine’s lobster industry had taken steps to modify gear, and that Seafood Watch’s rating was based on outdated and irrelevant data.
—Neil Vigdor, New York Times, 4 Mar. 2025
The rationale is straightforward: like early-stage startups in the dot-com era, some of these assets may eventually prove valuable, whereas many others will likely become irrelevant.
—Christian Catalini, Forbes, 7 Mar. 2025
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Mac Engel, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 9 Mar. 2025
However, the fishermen suing Seafood Watch say that the group’s rating was based on irrelevant and outdated data, and that the industry has worked to modify its gear, The New York Times wrote.
—Tori Latham, Robb Report, 5 Mar. 2025
The fishermen who sued the nonprofit argued that Maine’s lobster industry had taken steps to modify gear, and that Seafood Watch’s rating was based on outdated and irrelevant data.
—Neil Vigdor, New York Times, 4 Mar. 2025
The rationale is straightforward: like early-stage startups in the dot-com era, some of these assets may eventually prove valuable, whereas many others will likely become irrelevant.
—Christian Catalini, Forbes, 7 Mar. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for irrelevant
Adjective
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The law, after all, is meaningless if no one can enforce it.—
Ian Millhiser,
Vox,
18 Mar. 2025
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That figure is meaningless, Reyes said, because there was no comparison offered to the deployment rate of servicemembers overall.—
Maureen Groppe,
USA TODAY,
16 Mar. 2025
Adjective
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Whether the ball struck by Shohei Ohtani would have cleared the right-field wall at the Tokyo Dome if some fans hadn’t reached over the railing is immaterial.—
Iliana Limón Romero,
Los Angeles Times,
20 Mar. 2025
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The immaterial places of James Turrell come to mind, as do Larry Bell’s glass boxes, Robert Irwin’s scrim-interiors, and Agnes Martin’s geometric haziness.—
Jerry Saltz,
Vulture,
7 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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Most of its tweaks, apart from the ones made to Snow White, are superfluous; the film nips and tucks set pieces while padding its nearly two-hour run time with extraneous songs and dialogue.—
Shirley Li,
The Atlantic,
24 Mar. 2025
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Not even Salley’s plastic surgeon, who is removing both of her breast implants as well as her extraneous e, could fix this mess.—
Brian Moylan,
Vulture,
13 Mar. 2025
Adjective
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Encryption serves as a critical line of defense by rendering intercepted data useless to unauthorized parties.—
Srikanth Bellamkonda,
Forbes.com,
26 Mar. 2025
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Because of this, even areas that are just open fields between pockets of good whitetail habitat, or a stand of mature timber that’s largely useless at this time, might provide medium- to long-range travel routes.—
Josh Honeycutt,
Outdoor Life,
20 Mar. 2025
Adjective
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The app has a private messaging feature that can lead to inappropriate conversations with predators.—
Hannah Nwoko,
Parents,
21 Mar. 2025
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Cornelius said that the superintendent later informed her of other prior incidents including her son — who has autism and is nonverbal — getting a shower without her permission, getting called vulgar names by staff and teachers, and receiving other inappropriate comments.—
Lillie Davidson,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
21 Mar. 2025
Adjective
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But people all around us ask impertinent questions all the time.—
Harriette Cole,
The Mercury News,
14 Mar. 2025
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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
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 2 Apr. 2025.
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