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
First, the Raiders are irrelevant in the AFC West, the black hole an apt description of their status, not their once-proud homefield advantage.
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Troy Renck, The Denver Post, 11 Jan. 2025
Fact-checking suddenly looks quaint, inadequate and practically irrelevant.
—Axios, 10 Jan. 2025
That kind of humor is becoming harder and harder to separate from American politics as a whole, where jokes keep folding in on themselves and becoming realities, until the question of what’s serious and what isn’t becomes both impossible to answer and, ultimately, irrelevant.
—Sophie Haigney, New York Times, 8 Jan. 2025
All the logical arguments in the world, however, are irrelevant if fans believe something is off about the product and change the channel.
—Lev Akabas, Sportico.com, 7 Jan. 2025
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Troy Renck, The Denver Post, 11 Jan. 2025
Fact-checking suddenly looks quaint, inadequate and practically irrelevant.
—Axios, 10 Jan. 2025
That kind of humor is becoming harder and harder to separate from American politics as a whole, where jokes keep folding in on themselves and becoming realities, until the question of what’s serious and what isn’t becomes both impossible to answer and, ultimately, irrelevant.
—Sophie Haigney, New York Times, 8 Jan. 2025
All the logical arguments in the world, however, are irrelevant if fans believe something is off about the product and change the channel.
—Lev Akabas, Sportico.com, 7 Jan. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for irrelevant
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After all, we too are drawn to violent, meaningless spectacle to distract us from matters of substance.—
Chris Vognar,
Los Angeles Times,
16 Jan. 2025
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Still, the existence of both shows, and the longevity of Grace and Frankie, spoke to an unexpected side effect of the streaming revolution: With no advertisers to appease (at least not in the 2010s), demographics became meaningless.—
Alan Sepinwall,
Rolling Stone,
15 Jan. 2025
Adjective
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Whether those producing for us are located across the street or on the other side of the world is immaterial.—
John Tamny,
Forbes,
22 Jan. 2025
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Of course, the game is immaterial to the actual voting.—
Jeff Zrebiec,
The Athletic,
14 Jan. 2025
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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
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That bill was set for passage this week before Elon Musk went ballistic on social platform X, pointing out some real extraneous spending, as well as some misinformation, about what was in the bill.—
Jonathan Easley,
The Hill,
20 Dec. 2024
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That way, the team could cut extraneous questions that obscured a client’s true vulnerability and could be traumatizing for a client to talk through unnecessarily.—
Carly Stern,
Vox,
6 Dec. 2024
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Without that essential training to help surmount powerful systemic barriers, the kit would have been useless—and in that sense, the job is still woefully unfinished.—
Sheila McClear,
The Atlantic,
16 Jan. 2025
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Esoteric knowledge of the parks, essentially useless anywhere else, is suddenly incredibly useful.—
Darryn King,
Forbes,
13 Jan. 2025
Adjective
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In stark contrast, Lauren Sanchez's choice of a white suit with a visible lace corset was inappropriate for the occasion, earning a notably low score in dress and presence.—
Kristen Waggoner,
Newsweek,
21 Jan. 2025
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Bad reviews, inappropriate comments and shabby online engagements have the opposite effect and can potentially leave a permanent mark against the company name.—
Dmitry Malin,
Forbes,
21 Jan. 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
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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 30 Jan. 2025.
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