irrelevance
noun
ir·rel·e·vance
i-ˈre-lə-vən(t)s 
1
: the quality or state of being irrelevant
2
: something irrelevant
Examples of irrelevance in a Sentence
the irrelevance of the comment brought conversation to a standstill
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Preston Fore, Fortune, 5 Oct. 2025
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In sacrificing its global influence for the chance to spend the past year pulverizing the previously unheard-of city of Pokrovsk in the Donbas, Russia has proved not its resilience but its near irrelevance.
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Preston Fore, Fortune, 5 Oct. 2025
Every February and September, when the event takes place, critics and showgoers bemoan that the entire affair is strangled by commercialism and limping toward irrelevance.
—Ana Karina Zatarain, New Yorker, 19 Sep. 2025
This is why most pilots die, not of failure, but due to irrelevance.
—Aditya Vikram Kashyap, Forbes.com, 18 Sep. 2025
In sacrificing its global influence for the chance to spend the past year pulverizing the previously unheard-of city of Pokrovsk in the Donbas, Russia has proved not its resilience but its near irrelevance.
—Jeremy Shapiro, The Atlantic, 10 Sep. 2025
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“Irrelevance.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/irrelevance. Accessed 10 Oct. 2025.
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irrelevance
noun
ir·rel·e·vance
ir-ˈre-lə-vəns
1
: the quality or state of being irrelevant
2
: something that is irrelevant
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