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Instead of celebrating Boston’s 18th championship, Smart languished between injuries and irrelevancy.—Los Angeles Times, 22 Apr. 2026 While much of those streaming sales were non-sports commitments, the flow of ad dollars away from linear TV will accelerate as the primetime entertainment properties continue to sag under the weight of their cultural irrelevancy.—Anthony Crupi, Sportico.com, 13 Mar. 2026 In this wider political context, the debate over a provincial fishery tax, even if meant as a distraction, was hardly an irrelevancy.—Catherine Nicholson, New York Times, 10 Sep. 2025 In other words, if a creditor can obtain the judgment in federal court or somehow maneuver it there, then charging order exclusivity goes out the window or at least will be relegated to no more than a footnote to its irrelevancy.—Jay Adkisson, Forbes.com, 29 Aug. 2025 See All Example Sentences for irrelevancy