irrelevance
Example Sentences
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Or they retreated, following Macdonald’s advice, into social irrelevance by adopting dead-end pseudo-philosophies like deconstructionism.
From Salon • Apr. 19, 2026
The European Union also warned in a recent submission that the organisation was "at a critical and, in fact, an existential juncture", while Britain cautioned that "without reform, it will slide into irrelevance".
From Barron's • Mar. 20, 2026
PayPal now has “institutional irrelevance among top merchants,” he wrote in a Tuesday blog post.
From MarketWatch • Feb. 4, 2026
Assuming that most Americans value our mission is a recipe for irrelevance and decline.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 25, 2026
The shell was interesting and pretty and a worthy plaything; but the vivid phantoms of his day-dream still interposed between him and Piggy, who in this context was an irrelevance.
From "Lord of the Flies" by William Golding
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