as in relevancy
the fact or state of being pertinent
I appreciate that you did the dishes tonight, but that has no relevance to my enforcement of the punishment you got earlier this week
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Sports teams, desperate for relevance, throw away decades of tradition on new designs that are often met with backlash.
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Chicago Tribune, 15 Mar. 2025
But despite being the more rational and righteous of the parents, Maddie has a bad case of overestimating the relevance of her vocational training to the calamity at hand.
—Ritesh Mehta, IndieWire, 14 Mar. 2025
Musk’s Twitter purchase was a bad deal financially and has been detrimental to X’s bottom line, but his ownership of the platform helped boost his cultural and political relevance by keeping him in the center of the news cycle.
—Charlie Warzel, The Atlantic, 12 Mar. 2025
Yet there’s a serious question here, too, raised in the play and heightened in this adaptation, about the relevance and role of art — whether there’s any point at all — when the world is falling apart.
—Demetrios Matheou, The Hollywood Reporter, 7 Mar. 2025
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Chicago Tribune, 15 Mar. 2025
But despite being the more rational and righteous of the parents, Maddie has a bad case of overestimating the relevance of her vocational training to the calamity at hand.
—Ritesh Mehta, IndieWire, 14 Mar. 2025
Musk’s Twitter purchase was a bad deal financially and has been detrimental to X’s bottom line, but his ownership of the platform helped boost his cultural and political relevance by keeping him in the center of the news cycle.
—Charlie Warzel, The Atlantic, 12 Mar. 2025
Yet there’s a serious question here, too, raised in the play and heightened in this adaptation, about the relevance and role of art — whether there’s any point at all — when the world is falling apart.
—Demetrios Matheou, The Hollywood Reporter, 7 Mar. 2025
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“Relevance.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/relevance. Accessed 24 Mar. 2025.
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