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irrelevance

[ih-rel-uh-vuhns] / ɪˈrɛl ə vəns /


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Woven into the narratives are interludes—some are standalone chapters, others are lengthy parenthetical additions—that flash forward to reveal the anticlimaxes of the characters’ latter years and, as Ms. Li views it, their irrelevance to posterity.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 6, 2026

Another indicator of the document’s irrelevance is that it was issued by the Board of Peace, an organization that has no authority or power to do anything.

From Slate ● Aug. 3, 2026

Europe risks "total technological irrelevance" if it fails to develop sovereign capabilities, the head of Canadian AI startup Cohere warned Thursday on the sidelines of the Vivatech trade fair in Paris.

From Barron's ● Jun. 18, 2026

On social-media platforms like X, some investors have loudly proclaimed that after years of serving as the dominant cryptocurrency, bitcoin might finally be lurching toward irrelevance.

From MarketWatch ● Jun. 4, 2026

Our models were an irrelevance, a technical necessity for bringing us into the world, nothing more than that.

From "Never Let Me Go" by Kazuo Ishiguro


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