as in meaningless
not having anything to do with the matter at hand
irrelevant questions that merely disrupted the classroom lesson
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Recent Examples of irrelevant
The newspaper would rather devote much of its energy on the out-of-town and irrelevant Miami Heat.
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Sun Sentinel Editorial Board,
Sun Sentinel,
27 June 2026
David Glassman, who represented the state, said any affair was irrelevant.
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CBS News,
26 June 2026
Now that Mendoza is a Raider, Brady said the rookie’s draft status is irrelevant.
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Sam Warren,
New York Times,
25 June 2026
Whether one believes that the activists’ motivations were righteous is more or less irrelevant.
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David A. Graham,
The Atlantic,
25 June 2026
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Sun Sentinel Editorial Board,
Sun Sentinel,
27 June 2026
David Glassman, who represented the state, said any affair was irrelevant.
—
CBS News,
26 June 2026
Now that Mendoza is a Raider, Brady said the rookie’s draft status is irrelevant.
—
Sam Warren,
New York Times,
25 June 2026
Whether one believes that the activists’ motivations were righteous is more or less irrelevant.
—
David A. Graham,
The Atlantic,
25 June 2026
See All Example Sentences for irrelevant
Recent Examples of Synonyms for irrelevant
Adjective
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Relatively meaningless but still badass.
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At its core, unlike those meaningless marketing terms, ‘regenerative,’ when used responsibly, is legitimately full of deep meaning and has the potential to make significant human and environmental change when adopted at scale.
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The money, in Gupta’s view, is immaterial.
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The fact that it was conceived without thought and for decades was produced and consumed without thought is immaterial.
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In a recent conversation with Peter Diamandis, an entrepreneur and executive chairman of the XPrize Foundation, Musk fleshed out his moonshot visions for the future, which have previously included work being completely optional and retirement becoming inapplicable.
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Your business might not have branches, but that doesn’t mean that this strategy is inapplicable.
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Still, Copilot is going through a reset, with Andreou eliminating extraneous versions of the AI tool and merging the teams that focused on consumer and enterprise versions of the product.
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The Invite should, in a perfect world, relegate that extraneous stuff to the back pages.
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At any rate, upon election my first official act would be to file legislation to do away with the useless job.
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An ultra-secure cloud environment is useless if the identity management policy is lax or if access privileges are not reviewed on a strict need-to-know basis.
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Murdaugh’s attorneys appealed the convictions, saying the trial was tainted by the county clerk Becky Hill’s inappropriate comments to jurors implying his guilt.
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Live streams and other unfiltered media can expose kids to risky or inappropriate content, so adult guidance is key.
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Some Percy Jackson fans are acting quite impertinent.
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That your answer is not believed by these nosy, impertinent people is insulting.
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“Irrelevant.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/irrelevant. Accessed 6 Jul. 2026.
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