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
But Deputy Attorney General Meredith White said that those definitions were irrelevant, because they were only meant to apply in cases where there was more than one perpetrator present, and one was the actual killer and the other was an accomplice.
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Sharon Bernstein, Sacramento Bee, 6 Feb. 2025
This was not just any guest, and the term mother-in-law carries often-unjust overtones that are irrelevant to your situation.
—Judith Martin, The Mercury News, 5 Feb. 2025
For me [the series] is an invitation to not underestimate anything, not even those things that seem irrelevant or small.
—Gianmaria Tammaro, The Hollywood Reporter, 31 Jan. 2025
The Lively-Reynolds camp claim Freedman’s recent remarks to the press are false, irrelevant and harassing, and risk prejudicing the jury.
—Jami Ganz, New York Daily News, 22 Jan. 2025
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Sharon Bernstein, Sacramento Bee, 6 Feb. 2025
This was not just any guest, and the term mother-in-law carries often-unjust overtones that are irrelevant to your situation.
—Judith Martin, The Mercury News, 5 Feb. 2025
For me [the series] is an invitation to not underestimate anything, not even those things that seem irrelevant or small.
—Gianmaria Tammaro, The Hollywood Reporter, 31 Jan. 2025
The Lively-Reynolds camp claim Freedman’s recent remarks to the press are false, irrelevant and harassing, and risk prejudicing the jury.
—Jami Ganz, New York Daily News, 22 Jan. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for irrelevant
Adjective
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However, trying to draw an AI line may be meaningless when the term itself is so all-encompassing.—
Marcus Jones,
IndieWire,
7 Feb. 2025
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Her Washington insider status is meaningless during the next four years of the Trump administration and an unfriendly Congress.—
Letters To The Editor,
The Mercury News,
7 Feb. 2025
Adjective
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The inconvenience for residents, business owners, customers or guests is immaterial.—
Contributed Content,
Twin Cities,
6 Feb. 2025
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The Pennsylvania State Conference of the NAACP, the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and other organizations claimed the requirement violates the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which prohibits states from denying the right to vote because of an immaterial error.—
Zach Schonfeld,
The Hill,
21 Jan. 2025
Adjective
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These are responses that may sound correct at first, but turn out to be wrong (like your crazy uncle’s Thanksgiving table advice), often due to inapplicable or inaccurate information being used to train the models.—
Dean DeBiase,
Forbes,
25 Nov. 2024
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Pavia could argue Bewley is inapplicable since while the Bewley brothers were paid to play in OTE, there is no comparable point for Pavia.—
Michael McCann,
Sportico.com,
24 Nov. 2024
Adjective
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That bill was set for passage this week before Elon Musk went ballistic on social platform X, pointing out some real extraneous spending, as well as some misinformation, about what was in the bill.—
Jonathan Easley,
The Hill,
20 Dec. 2024
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The expert’s role is to extract and authenticate the relevant data while filtering out extraneous information.—
Lars Daniel,
Forbes,
6 Dec. 2024
Adjective
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Power losses also left area water pumps useless for hours during the 2017 Thomas fire.—
Grace Toohey,
Los Angeles Times,
5 Feb. 2025
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The holding midfielder Antonio Blanco tried to step into Yamal but a quick flick of his left foot meant that Blanco’s tackle was useless.—
Pol Ballús,
The Athletic,
3 Feb. 2025
Adjective
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Louden does and says things that are inappropriate in the film.—
Todd Gilchrist,
Variety,
14 Feb. 2025
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Many thought her outfit choice was inappropriate for such a historic occasion in the rotunda of the U.S. Capitol.—
Martha Ross,
The Mercury News,
12 Feb. 2025
Adjective
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Cocky, opinionated, and flippant, Jimmy might as well be every foreigner’s idea of what those impertinent cowboy Americans are like.—
Tim Grierson,
Vulture,
14 July 2024
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In the late Eighties, Ernst Jorgensen, then an executive at a BMG affiliate in Denmark, raised an impertinent question in an international meeting.—
Brian Hiatt,
Rolling Stone,
22 Oct. 2024
Adjective
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The Supreme Court indeed raised Flood and explained the cases were, at best, inapposite.—
Marc Edelman,
Forbes,
21 June 2021
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Then there is Beinart’s inapposite comparison between this president’s rhetoric on these themes and the rhetoric of President George W. Bush.—
Daniel Foster,
The Atlantic,
10 July 2017
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“Irrelevant.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/irrelevant. Accessed 21 Feb. 2025.
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