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Recent Examples of irrelevancy
While president of basketball operations Jeff Peterson hasn’t been known to work the phones on draft night, Charlotte’s front office is taking an opportunistic approach to emerge from NBA irrelevancy.
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Hunter Bailey, Charlotte Observer, 23 June 2025
Given the overwhelming popularity of video hosting platforms, seen in the graph below, even some of the biggest streamers could face irrelevancy in the shadow of behemoths like YouTube and TikTok.
—Jamie Lang, Variety, 17 Feb. 2025
Combustible pundit Nancy Grace has long languished in YouTube irrelevancy, but her hyper-sensational show makes a fitting vehicle for this white-hot topic.
—Joe Berkowitz, Vulture, 15 Dec. 2024
Does Anthony Davis really want to spend the rest of his prime in the shadows of irrelevancy?
—Bill Plaschke, Los Angeles Times, 9 Dec. 2024
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Hunter Bailey, Charlotte Observer, 23 June 2025
Given the overwhelming popularity of video hosting platforms, seen in the graph below, even some of the biggest streamers could face irrelevancy in the shadow of behemoths like YouTube and TikTok.
—Jamie Lang, Variety, 17 Feb. 2025
Combustible pundit Nancy Grace has long languished in YouTube irrelevancy, but her hyper-sensational show makes a fitting vehicle for this white-hot topic.
—Joe Berkowitz, Vulture, 15 Dec. 2024
Does Anthony Davis really want to spend the rest of his prime in the shadows of irrelevancy?
—Bill Plaschke, Los Angeles Times, 9 Dec. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for irrelevancy
irrelevance
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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
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Oversight today occupies a space of liminality — the threshold between legitimacy and irrelevance, between promise and abandonment.—
Hansel Alejandro Aguilar,
Mercury News,
6 Sep. 2025
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“Irrelevancy.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/irrelevancy. Accessed 9 Sep. 2025.
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