irrelevance

And little wonder: they were crushed to near irrelevance numerically in Parliament for nearly a decade.

But for now, for them, it is a nice conundrum to have, after a near decade of near irrelevance.

Villarreal: The real engine of the show is something that has always fascinated me, which is, what happens to talent when they’ve sort of fallen into obscurity or irrelevance?

I resigned myself to irrelevance and watched the crowded bazaar.

JuJu Watkins propelled USC to a meteoric, magical, mesmerizing one-year rise to get back into the national championship conversation after decades of irrelevance.