How to Use pertinence in a Sentence

pertinence

noun

• But Record of the Year is not a pertinence or a lyric award.
  — Craig Jenkins, Vulture, 30 Jan. 2026
• He’ll be remembered for the high quality of his movies and for their pertinence.
  — Brent Lang, Variety, 26 July 2022
• Bears talk a good story, and their voices gain pertinence in the financial media when stock markets are falling.
  — Jon Markman, Forbes, 11 July 2022
• It’s arrived nearly a year late in her hometown, but her disquieted art has only grown in pertinence and power.
  — Jason Farago, New York Times, 25 Mar. 2021
• His stature in world history is arguably comparable too—and there is a special pertinence to his heritage.
  — Tunku Varadarajan, WSJ, 7 Jan. 2022
• But energy analysts largely dismiss the cap’s pertinence to prices, and some say the market’s thinking seems muddled.
  — Bob Henderson, WSJ, 30 Nov. 2022
• During these episodes players are given a small range of questions to choose from and are graded at the end of the interrogation on the pertinence of their choices.
  — Washington Post, 21 May 2021
• The pertinence of that last detail would become all too clear a little more than a decade later, with the Great Fire of 1872.
  — Mark Feeney, BostonGlobe.com, 19 Jan. 2023
• Of course, some have pertinence to accessibility for disabled people.
  — Steven Aquino, Forbes, 4 Sep. 2024
• Nnaji herself responded to Ava’s tweet shortly after — thanking her for her comments and shedding light on the film’s language pertinence.
  — Sara Delgado, Teen Vogue, 5 Nov. 2019
• Yet the singularity of 1968 does not diminish its pertinence to our present turmoil.
  — Rachel Aviv, The New Yorker, 10 Feb. 2018
• There can be no denying the worth or pertinence of such an undertaking at a time when black men face acts of violence, incarceration and death on a seemingly day-to-day basis.
  — John Von Rhein, chicagotribune.com, 23 Feb. 2018
• More meetings with less institutional pertinence, more managing up.
  — Peggy Noonan, WSJ, 20 May 2021
• Considerations such as possible poetry pertinence are made based on responses to an intake questionnaire emailed after booking.
  — New York Times, 19 Mar. 2021
• Although not explicitly stated, the reality is Oko has extreme pertinence to the Blind and low vision community.
  — Steven Aquino, Forbes, 25 Nov. 2024
• Normally, the byzantine workings of academic-tenure review are of little pertinence to anyone beyond the individuals involved.
  — Jelani Cobb, The New Yorker, 29 May 2021
• In selecting signature causes, business pertinence beats democracy.
  — David Hessekiel, Forbes, 27 Dec. 2021
• Now, however, attention must be paid to demonstrating the continuing pertinence of the Founders’ premises to places with the crackling energy of booming Arizona.
  — George Will, Twin Cities, 10 Mar. 2017
• Now, however, attention must be paid to demonstrating the continuing pertinence of the Founders’ premises to places with the crackling energy of booming Arizona.
  — George F. Will, The Denver Post, 11 Mar. 2017
• But realizing the play’s own kind of mortality—its slow shift from urgent cri de coeur to period piece mined for pertinence—bathes it in a loving new light, one that Elliott teases out gracefully in this production’s finest scenes.
  — Richard Lawson, Vanities, 26 Mar. 2018
• Monday’s festivities were no different, as every new product Apple announced had pertinence to the disability community.
  — Steven Aquino, Forbes, 11 Sep. 2024
• Fortunately, the Democratic field includes one person familiar with Thucydides’ warning and who is unafraid to assert its contemporary pertinence.
  — George Will, Twin Cities, 14 July 2019
• Many companies sit directly in the middle of this tension, recognizing the pertinence of data collection, but often lacking the proper infrastructure and processes to ensure each dataset is truly serving a purpose.
  — Lior Eldan, Forbes.com, 24 Feb. 2026
• And, despite his order, Highberger wrote that the legal landscape would benefit from an appeals court weighing in on the pertinence of AB5 and the Dynamex decision to the trucking industry.
  — Carolyn Said, SFChronicle.com, 9 Jan. 2020
• On Wednesday, attorneys for both families argued about the pertinence of Roberta Laundrie’s letter to the upcoming civil trial before the judge ruled that a copy be given to Petito’s parents.
  — Praveena Somasundaram, Washington Post, 26 May 2023
• During Joy Engine's Meet the Artist gathering on February 9, many of the grant recipients addressed the pertinence of their projects in the current socio-political landscape.
  — Anya Sesay, jsonline.com, 6 Mar. 2026
• Of course, users will have to sort and verify the information for pertinence and accuracy, the LLM nonetheless captures vital information from across the entire organization, fostering greater knowledge.
  — Patrick Moorhead, Forbes, 16 Mar. 2023
• Shackleton has some pertinence for fans of Apple TV’s sci-fi alternate-history series For All Mankind, in which prospectors from the United States and the Soviet Union compete for water resources inside the crater.
  — Stephen Clark, ArsTechnica, 16 Apr. 2026
• His latest work, The Urgency of Indigenous Values—available via JSTOR’s Path to Open program—not only examines the origins, wisdom, and pertinence of Haudenosaunee beliefs, but also confronts the inherent limitations of such examination.
  — Tim Brinkhof, JSTOR Daily, 22 Apr. 2026