irrelevancy
Americannoun
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irrelevancies
plural
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Etymology
Origin of irrelevancy
First recorded in 1795–1805; ir- 2 + relevancy ( def. )
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Wedged in the tiny space between irrelevancy and timeliness, Sorkin’s companion piece doesn’t need to say anything new to do its job; it only has to persuade us to pay attention to its shouts.
From Salon ● Oct. 11, 2026
The Chinese shipbuilding industry is by far the world’s largest, while America’s has shrunk to irrelevancy.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 17, 2025
Last year's contestant Francesca was hardly visible in the first few episodes, even prompting memes about her supposed irrelevancy, before growing into the show and making it to the final.
From BBC ● May 14, 2025
Abandoned — from its perspective, at least — by teams such as Washington and Oregon, who bolted for the Big Ten, Washington State football is fighting for its survival as irrelevancy looms.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 15, 2023
Your best reasoning is worsted by gracious irrelevancy; your protesting attacks are turned by acquiescing politeness; and the East moves on its smiling, unalterable way.
From By Desert Ways to Baghdad by Louisa Jebb
They no longer stop and start it with their petty irrelevancies and VAR is less inclined to interfere.
From BBC ● Aug. 22, 2022
HealthMap tries to address this problem by using artificial intelligence to filter out repetition and irrelevancies.
From Scientific American ● Mar. 30, 2020
The trivia piles up; it’s a lawn sale of irrelevancies.
From New York Times ● Mar. 23, 2020
The ASRM’s pitch to legislators bristles with irrelevancies and misleading claims.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 23, 2019
But interspersed with lines of great force and beauty are cumbrous irrelevancies, wholly superfluous details.
From The Vagabond in Literature by Arthur Rickett
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