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Recent Examples of irrelevance This is why most pilots die, not of failure, but due to irrelevance. Aditya Vikram Kashyap, Forbes.com, 18 Sep. 2025 In sacrificing its global influence for the chance to spend the past year pulverizing the previously unheard-of city of Pokrovsk in the Donbas, Russia has proved not its resilience but its near irrelevance. Jeremy Shapiro, The Atlantic, 10 Sep. 2025 Since the election, Reform has tried to refashion itself from a protest vote party to one that could govern – untried and inexperienced, but ready to step in if the Labour Party buckles under its own blunders, and the once-mighty Conservatives drift further into political irrelevance. Christian Edwards, CNN Money, 7 Sep. 2025 Demands for justice are delayed into irrelevance. Hansel Alejandro Aguilar, Mercury News, 6 Sep. 2025 See All Example Sentences for irrelevance
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Noun
  • At the end, every element is dismantled, the squares return to emptiness, and the streets resume their rhythm.
    Leo Barraclough, Variety, 19 Oct. 2025
  • Fall from the emptiness of his promises—and that is not a metaphor.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 9 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Her difficulty lay in her distance from the random violence of insignificance.
    Rachel Cusk, New Yorker, 24 Aug. 2025
  • His groundbreaking work reveals how a hidden epidemic of insignificance is quietly eroding engagement, trust, and performance in organizations, and what leaders can do to reverse it.
    Rodger Dean Duncan, Forbes.com, 8 July 2025

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“Irrelevance.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/irrelevance. Accessed 26 Oct. 2025.

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