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
To much of the public, however, the revelations of the arraignment made these nuances seem like irrelevant, offensive technicalities.
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Eren Orbey, The New Yorker, 14 Oct. 2024
This feature allows the user to focus on relevant areas, such as the immediate front of the house, and avoid alerts triggered by irrelevant movements like pedestrians on the sidewalk.
—Casey Delbasso, ABC News, 14 Oct. 2024
Whether this is fair to the athlete or not is irrelevant, as the NFL is the fastest-moving league with the smallest sample sizes.
—Tyler Small, Forbes, 31 Oct. 2024
Actual possession of a weapon is irrelevant and mistakes happen, Stephens said in court, adding that what matters is how Hill’s hand was presented with a glint of steel.
—Deon J. Hampton, NBC News, 24 Oct. 2024
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Eren Orbey, The New Yorker, 14 Oct. 2024
This feature allows the user to focus on relevant areas, such as the immediate front of the house, and avoid alerts triggered by irrelevant movements like pedestrians on the sidewalk.
—Casey Delbasso, ABC News, 14 Oct. 2024
Whether this is fair to the athlete or not is irrelevant, as the NFL is the fastest-moving league with the smallest sample sizes.
—Tyler Small, Forbes, 31 Oct. 2024
Actual possession of a weapon is irrelevant and mistakes happen, Stephens said in court, adding that what matters is how Hill’s hand was presented with a glint of steel.
—Deon J. Hampton, NBC News, 24 Oct. 2024
See all Example Sentences for irrelevant
Recent Examples of Synonyms for irrelevant
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The Democratic National Committee (DNC) has argued the requirement is meaningless because mail ballots are time stamped upon their receipt by election officials, a position backed by Pennsylvania’s Republican secretary of state.Zach Schonfeld, The Hill, 1 Nov. 2024
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Without ads, that would be a meaningless statistic.Yeo Boon Ping, CNBC, 21 Oct. 2024
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Some see the paltry number of artifacts returned as an inherent insult, while others protest that the immaterial aspects of their cultural past were never lost and shouldn’t be discounted.Alison Willmore, Vulture, 25 Oct. 2024
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To a threat actor working to break into and move through a network, the form and function of an asset is immaterial.Jim Hyman, Forbes, 26 Sep. 2024
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Another possible argument is the arbitrators’ decision is irrational given the evidence and testimony or, similarly, the arbitrators relied on materials and insights that were inapplicable or vulnerable to bias.Michael McCann, Sportico.com, 4 Nov. 2024
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Its primary argument, unsurprisingly, takes on just how outdated and inapplicable the law the FBI has invoked is.Kim Zetter, WIRED, 25 Feb. 2016
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Another study found that those same extraneous factors led emergency room doctors to misdiagnose accidental injuries as abuse in a staggering 83 percent of cases.Jeff Kukucka, Scientific American, 26 Oct. 2024
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Further complicating matters, child abuse determinations are subject to cognitive bias, in which extraneous information leads experts to interpret the same injury in different ways—at least one of which must be incorrect.Jeff Kukucka, Scientific American, 26 Oct. 2024
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These latest such initiatives focus on linking cookies to devices and apps, rendering thefts useless.Zak Doffman, Forbes, 3 Nov. 2024
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Elevators stopped working between floors, stoplights stopped working at intersections and life-saving pacemakers were rendered useless.Mars King, Twin Cities, 30 Oct. 2024
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Refuse to let anyone talk you into something inappropriate or expensive.Eugenia Last, The Mercury News, 11 Nov. 2024
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With nowhere else to turn, Gregory calls his dad for honest advice, hoping to find one person who agrees that fighting a student’s parent would be inappropriate.Ile-Ife Okantah, Vulture, 6 Nov. 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 21 Nov. 2024.
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