irrelevance
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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
“The penalty for falling behind is, in theory, increasingly irrelevance and, eventually, bankruptcy.”
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 29, 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
Or they retreated, following Macdonald’s advice, into social irrelevance by adopting dead-end pseudo-philosophies like deconstructionism.
From Salon ● Apr. 19, 2026
What dismays him most is the irrelevance of it all.
From "The Namesake" by Jhumpa Lahiri
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