irrelevancy
Americannoun
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irrelevancies
plural
Other Word Forms
Noun Inflected Forms
Etymology
Origin of irrelevancy
First recorded in 1795–1805; ir- 2 + relevancy ( def. )
Example Sentences
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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
The challenge: win, and soon, or risk regional irrelevancy.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 20, 2024
He wanted to put that into practice, Russian commentators said, and as an activist who thrived on agitation, he feared sinking into irrelevancy in exile.
From New York Times ● Feb. 17, 2024
This national safeguard, this barrier between judicial irrelevancy and the public at large, should not be removed in a careless spirit.
From The Law and the Poor by Edward Abbott Parry
Heck, if all the market participants wanted was an exotic, techno-futurist way to wager on irrelevancies, I’d say we should let them.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 14, 2022
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
It is a great book because the romance of it emerges into undisturbed amplitude of space, and asserts itself in large, grand, primitive forms unfretted by teasing irrelevancies.
From Suspended Judgments Essays on Books and Sensations by John Cowper Powys
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