1
as in spiritual
not composed of matter
it is only possible to study immaterial forces like gravity by observing their effects on the physical world
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as in irrelevant
not having anything to do with the matter at hand
while undoubtedly upsetting, that story is immaterial to the question of why you are late
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Recent Examples of immaterial
The Epstein island police activity, for example, is likely immaterial to anyone betting on markets related to Jeffrey Epstein on Polymarket.
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Joe Wilkins, Futurism, 5 Mar. 2026
And in a move that may seem immaterial to outside observers, 60 Minutes will in the coming weeks move from its historic base on West 57th across the street to the CBS Broadcast Center in Midtown Manhattan, joining the rest of the CBS News programming.
—Alex Weprin, HollywoodReporter, 24 Feb. 2026
To be clear, the cash component in the Mountain West and Pac-12 deals isn’t immaterial — certainly not in the era of revenue sharing and NIL.
—Jon Wilner, San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 Feb. 2026
Besides Davis, the other players involved in the deal are largely immaterial.
—Brad Townsend, Dallas Morning News, 4 Feb. 2026
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Joe Wilkins, Futurism, 5 Mar. 2026
And in a move that may seem immaterial to outside observers, 60 Minutes will in the coming weeks move from its historic base on West 57th across the street to the CBS Broadcast Center in Midtown Manhattan, joining the rest of the CBS News programming.
—Alex Weprin, HollywoodReporter, 24 Feb. 2026
To be clear, the cash component in the Mountain West and Pac-12 deals isn’t immaterial — certainly not in the era of revenue sharing and NIL.
—Jon Wilner, San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 Feb. 2026
Besides Davis, the other players involved in the deal are largely immaterial.
—Brad Townsend, Dallas Morning News, 4 Feb. 2026
See All Example Sentences for immaterial
Recent Examples of Synonyms for immaterial
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Across TikTok, Instagram, Threads, YouTube, Goodreads, and Reddit, reactions have focused less on the craft of fiction writing than on the spiritual subjugation of women that any media about this topic must, by nature, interrogate and include.—
Alison Foreman,
IndieWire,
28 Apr. 2026
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During his trial in January, prosecutors said the former actor weaponized his reputation as a Lakota medicine man, exploiting cultural traditions and spiritual beliefs to prey on Indigenous women and girls.—
Janelle Ash,
FOXNews.com,
28 Apr. 2026
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So to be honest, that’s pretty irrelevant.—
Kristian Winfield,
New York Daily News,
4 May 2026
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At this point, though, long-term success may be considered irrelevant within the department.—
Quinta Jurecic,
The Atlantic,
3 May 2026
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Followers of the Abrahamic religions are supposed to treat God as immaterial and incorporeal, yet these early Yahweh worshippers imagined him as fully embodied.—
Manvir Singh,
New Yorker,
9 Mar. 2026
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Positioned as a large-scale genre event, the series updates the legendary SFX property with a contemporary political and social edge, with Shun Oguri leading the cast as a detective hunting a seemingly incorporeal killer.—
Patrick Brzeski,
HollywoodReporter,
27 Jan. 2026
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Mercifully, those connections are not forged across time and space; all three stories remain discrete, never approaching a moment of grandiose metaphysical convergence.—
Justin Chang,
New Yorker,
8 May 2026
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Conversations might turn to metaphysical issues or charitable activities.—
Georgia Nicols,
Denver Post,
2 May 2026
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Put simply, superheated plasma was being tested as fuel, but the temperatures melted any sort of solid container, so the experiments used nonmaterial vessels formed from extremely powerful magnetic fields.—
Werner Herzog,
The New Yorker,
21 Aug. 2023
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The first part of the book is committed to a ground-clearing exercise, describing the various concepts of the nonmaterial soul that feature in many different religious belief systems.—
Denis Alexander,
Washington Post,
17 Mar. 2023
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The nearly invisible Thoreau – the compulsively quantitative and analytically rigorous physical scientist – emerged from my research as a geologist interested in the history of 19th-century science.—
Robert M. Thorson,
The Conversation,
8 May 2026
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Small ones, constant ones, invisible ones.—
The Editorial Board,
Chicago Tribune,
8 May 2026
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Also in 2019, the Eternally Yours script helped Port and Wiseman land the job of adapting the UK series Ghosts, another single-camera supernatural comedy for CBS.—
Nellie Andreeva,
Deadline,
1 May 2026
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The romancer, which bowed in SXSW, follows Julia (Hawke), a frustrated video game designer, and Charlie (Pullman), a struggling musician, having supernatural impacts on the world after attending a couples therapy seminar to repair their volatile relationship.—
Etan Vlessing,
HollywoodReporter,
1 May 2026
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In Ayurveda, Prana, the life force carried by the breath, is understood to nourish both the mind and body and can be viewed as a nonphysical substance, finer than oxygen.—
Trisha Swift,
Forbes.com,
28 July 2025
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In accounting, intangible assets are nonphysical possessions including such things as brands and intellectual property, software, mineral rights ‒ and contracts.—
Alexander Coolidge,
The Enquirer,
2 July 2025
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“Immaterial.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/immaterial. Accessed 11 May. 2026.
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