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Recent Examples of inconsequential This master class, knowingly or not, spotlighted the benefits of intergenerational friendships—one where a 40-year age gap seemed inconsequential. Alexa Mikhail, Flow Space, 25 Sep. 2025 Clark’s teammate Sophie Cunningham also had fun with the fine, joking on social media about the inconsequential amount. Anna Lazarus Caplan, PEOPLE, 22 Sep. 2025 At its least harmful, the message players wore across their chests Sunday trivializes a life-altering situation as inconsequential and secondary for those who lack the fame and platform to remind us of the permanent effects. Kansas City Star, 16 Sep. 2025 On their own, these signs may appear inconsequential. Kent Dicks, Forbes.com, 16 Sep. 2025 See All Example Sentences for inconsequential
Recent Examples of Synonyms for inconsequential
Adjective
  • Curing or drying potatoes thickens their skins, allows minor cuts and abrasions to heal, and makes spuds less likely to rot or shrivel in storage.
    Lauren Landers, Better Homes & Gardens, 20 Oct. 2025
  • Prisoners are not allowed to keep money behind bars, but cash can be provided by family members to a commissary fund used to buy food, toiletries and other minor needs, according to the Prison Fellowship.
    Mark Price, Miami Herald, 20 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • Maresca’s midfield featured Moises Caicedo, nominal full-back Malo Gusto, and Enzo Fernandez operating higher than usual in Palmer’s absence.
    Cerys Jones, New York Times, 15 Oct. 2025
  • Drake sought nominal, compensatory, and punitive damages, plus legal fees.
    Wesley Stenzel, Entertainment Weekly, 10 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • That seems unreasonable given how weak this group has been.
    Jim Cramer, CNBC, 20 Oct. 2025
  • This decision places an unreasonable financial burden on agencies and managers who are already navigating a fragile market.
    Lynette Rice, Deadline, 17 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • Viruses, as well as small bits of vegetation and invasive zebra mussel larvae, can hide in the plumbing of your rig.
    Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 21 Oct. 2025
  • Kahn is optimistic that Coach’s focus on a smaller number of affordable, yet consistent products puts it in a better place to manage cost and price increases than its competitors.
    Nicholas Gordon, Fortune, 21 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • Return with a slight counter-rotation and complete more reps as desired.
    Jakob Roze, Health, 21 Oct. 2025
  • Looking ahead to 2026, Coke is projecting a slight tail wind to both its revenue and comparable earnings from currency fluctuations.
    Amelia Lucas, CNBC, 21 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • The study, published on the research platform arXiv, found that once the models were allowed to vary their bets and set their own targets, irrational behavior surged — and bankruptcy became a common outcome.
    Jesus Mesa, MSNBC Newsweek, 22 Oct. 2025
  • Poetry brings hope, not an irrational optimism or wishful thinking, but a positive orientation to the future, of what a better, healthier future would look like.
    K.J.S. “Sunny” Anand, Time, 15 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • In fact, little of that story line, Androsoff argues, is backed up by historical evidence.
    JSTOR Daily, JSTOR Daily, 20 Oct. 2025
  • Geiger said there's little indication that tariff fears will result in any sort of Halloween pullback by consumers.
    Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 19 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • Such matters were neither trivial nor flighty.
    David Folkenflik, NPR, 16 Oct. 2025
  • This would involve assessing what the fate of the wood without intervention—and that’s no trivial feat.
    Syris Valentine, Scientific American, 16 Oct. 2025

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“Inconsequential.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/inconsequential. Accessed 24 Oct. 2025.

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