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
This week’s White House Report Card finds the nation entering an awkward period where the sitting president is becoming irrelevant, and the incoming president is prematurely taking charge.
Take Saturday’s celebration of the reopening of the Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris as an example.
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Paul Bedard, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 7 Dec. 2024
Researchers at Apple recently found that adding irrelevant clauses to math problems makes o1 more likely to answer incorrectly.
—Matteo Wong, The Atlantic, 6 Dec. 2024
Once the flag drops and the race begins, gender becomes irrelevant.
—Brendan Keegan, Rolling Stone, 3 Dec. 2024
With the investigation into the John Dutton murder plot taking up most of the narrative real estate in this final half-season, the ranch hands and their stories have felt more disconnected and irrelevant than ever.
—Ben Rosenstock, Vulture, 1 Dec. 2024
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Paul Bedard, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 7 Dec. 2024
Researchers at Apple recently found that adding irrelevant clauses to math problems makes o1 more likely to answer incorrectly.
—Matteo Wong, The Atlantic, 6 Dec. 2024
Once the flag drops and the race begins, gender becomes irrelevant.
—Brendan Keegan, Rolling Stone, 3 Dec. 2024
With the investigation into the John Dutton murder plot taking up most of the narrative real estate in this final half-season, the ranch hands and their stories have felt more disconnected and irrelevant than ever.
—Ben Rosenstock, Vulture, 1 Dec. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for irrelevant
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Otherwise the right to a clean and healthful environment is meaningless.Benedict Cosgrove, Newsweek, 19 Dec. 2024
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But too little would render the action essentially meaningless.Gayoung Lee, Smithsonian Magazine, 11 Dec. 2024
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The play, about a fanciful tour guide of a dull and stately English country house who runs into conflict with a factually fastidious official at the historic property, was almost immaterial.Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 27 Sep. 2024
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Some might think that is immaterial, as the U.S. is strong enough to have its way.Erik Sherman, Forbes, 25 Nov. 2024
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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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For all its credits, the Swift Go 14 still makes Acer’s regular sin of sticking a few too many little pieces of extraneous software onto the machine.PCMAG, PCMAG, 27 Nov. 2024
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Vitrines holding wildly different white or black objects make no sense, because whatever might be the specific visual point of the art objects is extraneous.Christopher Knight, Los Angeles Times, 22 Nov. 2024
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This is a fashion collab designed for women’s bodies to be looked at, but the functionality is useless.Jamie Aranoff, Outside Online, 12 Dec. 2024
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It was built on NBA men who subsidized that useless league for decades.Asher Notheis, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 11 Dec. 2024
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This, of course, does not excuse inappropriate behavior toward customers.Tomas Gorny, Forbes, 23 Dec. 2024
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The accusations include inappropriate touching and forcibly kissing an intern.Steve Bittenbender | The Center Square contributor, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 23 Dec. 2024
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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 Dec. 2024.
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