irrelevancy
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The Chinese shipbuilding industry is by far the world’s largest, while America’s has shrunk to irrelevancy.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 17, 2025
Last year's contestant Francesca was hardly visible in the first few episodes, even prompting memes about her supposed irrelevancy, before growing into the show and making it to the final.
From BBC ● May 14, 2025
He wanted to put that into practice, Russian commentators said, and as an activist who thrived on agitation, he feared sinking into irrelevancy in exile.
From New York Times ● Feb. 17, 2024
It’s been three weeks since Washington’s last win and its midseason skid has torpedoed a season that began with a little promise and is spiraling to irrelevancy.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 7, 2023
Then he resumed didactically, but with some irrelevancy, "I tole ye t'other day ez how ye war old enough ter be a-studyin' 'bout gittin' married."
From The Mystery of Witch-Face Mountain and Other Stories by Mary Noailles Murfree
They no longer stop and start it with their petty irrelevancies and VAR is less inclined to interfere.
From BBC ● Aug. 22, 2022
HealthMap tries to address this problem by using artificial intelligence to filter out repetition and irrelevancies.
From Scientific American ● Mar. 30, 2020
The trivia piles up; it’s a lawn sale of irrelevancies.
From New York Times ● Mar. 23, 2020
The ASRM’s pitch to legislators bristles with irrelevancies and misleading claims.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 23, 2019
The taste which overloads dress and architecture with superfluous irrelevancies, is often quite in opposition to that true sense of beauty which is indispensable to the artist and precious to the philosopher.
From Modern Society by Julia Ward Howe
