as in irrelevant
not having anything to do with the matter at hand
the judge refused to allow mention of the defendant's conviction for shoplifting, ruling that it was inapplicable to the case at hand
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Recent Examples of inapplicable
Yet those in power show little tolerance to law when open government, public records, national security and other laws are ignored or violated under a self-serving declaration that laws somehow are inapplicable to political leaders — applicable to others, just not to them.
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Lonnie Groot, The Orlando Sentinel, 6 Apr. 2025
These Penal Code gambling prohibitions are not rendered inapplicable by a sweepstakes operator’s compliance with state-law sweepstakes requirements (such as by offering free methods of entry).
—Daniel Wallach, Forbes, 25 Feb. 2025
These are responses that may sound correct at first, but turn out to be wrong (like your crazy uncle’s Thanksgiving table advice), often due to inapplicable or inaccurate information being used to train the models.
—Dean Debiase, Forbes, 25 Nov. 2024
Pavia could argue Bewley is inapplicable since while the Bewley brothers were paid to play in OTE, there is no comparable point for Pavia.
—Michael McCann, Sportico.com, 24 Nov. 2024
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Lonnie Groot, The Orlando Sentinel, 6 Apr. 2025
These Penal Code gambling prohibitions are not rendered inapplicable by a sweepstakes operator’s compliance with state-law sweepstakes requirements (such as by offering free methods of entry).
—Daniel Wallach, Forbes, 25 Feb. 2025
These are responses that may sound correct at first, but turn out to be wrong (like your crazy uncle’s Thanksgiving table advice), often due to inapplicable or inaccurate information being used to train the models.
—Dean Debiase, Forbes, 25 Nov. 2024
Pavia could argue Bewley is inapplicable since while the Bewley brothers were paid to play in OTE, there is no comparable point for Pavia.
—Michael McCann, Sportico.com, 24 Nov. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for inapplicable
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This is pretty much your standard-issue focus-group scene, with dopey viewers idiotically nitpicking irrelevant details.—
Jessica M. Goldstein,
Vulture,
2 May 2025
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By 1917 in Russia, housewives were marching in city streets to protest a lack of food, peasants were seizing land, and many Russians saw the czarist government as irrelevant, even treasonous.—
Margaret MacMillan,
The Atlantic,
30 Apr. 2025
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“Inapplicable.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/inapplicable. Accessed 11 May. 2025.
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