as in irrelevance
the quality or state of not having anything to do with the matter at hand
the sheer inapplicability of the comment made everyone else at the meeting stare in bewilderment
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Relevance
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Recent Examples of inapplicability
Defendants rely on cases that, ironically, only confirm the inapplicability of the § 1252(f)(1) bar here.
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New York Times, 2 Dec. 2025
New York Times, 2 Dec. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for inapplicability
irrelevance
Noun
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This is familiar territory for singular sports figures; think of how, over three seasons of 100 Foot Wave, big-wave surfer Garrett McNamara has opened up about his own vacillation between craving dominance and fearing irrelevance.—
Roxana Hadadi,
Vulture,
7 May 2026
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One win away from ending 16 years of playoff irrelevance.—
Mike Bianchi,
The Orlando Sentinel,
4 May 2026
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“Inapplicability.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/inapplicability. Accessed 13 May. 2026.
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