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
Does Anthony Davis really want to spend the rest of his prime in the shadows of irrelevancy?
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 9, 2024
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
These words were rattled off with great volubility, which seemed all the greater because of their surprising irrelevancy; while the head, thrown gayly to one side, balanced the quid in the bulged cheek.
From The Young Surveyor; or Jack on the Prairies by J. T. (John Townsend) Trowbridge
Heck, if all the market participants wanted was an exotic, techno-futurist way to wager on irrelevancies, I’d say we should let them.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 14, 2022
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
When his blood was up, he must either speak or burst; but his indignation, though it found vent in flashing sarcasms, never betrayed him into irrelevancies or inexactitudes.
From Fifteen Chapters of Autobiography by George William Erskine Russell
