irrelevance

Example Sentences

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Britain also said in a recent submission that it believes "the WTO is at a pivotal moment", warning that "without reform it will slide into irrelevance".

From Barron's • Mar. 26, 2026

Boatwright would be wise to heed this history and either take Chipotle into new frontiers or prepare for its inevitable irrelevance.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 19, 2026

When leaders act from fear of obsolescence, being outpaced or irrelevance, they activate those same threat responses in employees.

From MarketWatch • Dec. 18, 2025

The difficulty is that these and other summaries are often obscured by patches bordering on irrelevance.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 16, 2025

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