germane to

Lastly, as far as winning over younger voters, including men, it may be germane to note—and if it weren’t relevant to electoral concerns I wouldn’t bring it up, because of my feminism and my respect—that many people consider Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez attractive.

In the piece, Thiel writes that democracy is particularly miserable for people with high IQs, concluding that hero-entrepreneurs like himself should seek to create their own sovereign kingdoms, beyond the reach of democratic politics, in outer space and the ocean—a conclusion that is perhaps germane to Democrats’ recent decision to characterize certain GOP candidates and ideas as simply too weird to vote for.

Are these kings’ squabbles with the British Parliament over “tonnage and poundage duties” especially germane to the meaning of the U.S.

Under the draft legislation, companies would be required to minimize their collections to data germane to the transaction — for example, a ride-hailing company’s ability to use a customer’s geolocation wouldn’t go beyond the time when a driver is finding them for pickup.

Tate’s trajectory is lurid and gross, but the references to him are more symbolically than specifically germane to the movie.