as in meaningless
not having anything to do with the matter at hand
irrelevant questions that merely disrupted the classroom lesson
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Recent Examples of irrelevant
The trade-off – lower peak discharge current – is irrelevant when motors are spinning slowly and drawing minimal power.
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New Atlas, 27 Feb. 2026
But details are irrelevant in moments like this.
—Mike Bianchi, The Orlando Sentinel, 26 Feb. 2026
In court filings, Epstein's attorneys appeared to acknowledge that the items were removed from the home prior to the search but argued the materials were irrelevant to the investigation and protected by attorney-client privilege.
—James Hill, ABC News, 25 Feb. 2026
Some of these trolls are merely pasting swastikas on their nihilism, but their ideological sincerity is irrelevant.
—Tom Nichols, The Atlantic, 23 Feb. 2026
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New Atlas, 27 Feb. 2026
But details are irrelevant in moments like this.
—Mike Bianchi, The Orlando Sentinel, 26 Feb. 2026
In court filings, Epstein's attorneys appeared to acknowledge that the items were removed from the home prior to the search but argued the materials were irrelevant to the investigation and protected by attorney-client privilege.
—James Hill, ABC News, 25 Feb. 2026
Some of these trolls are merely pasting swastikas on their nihilism, but their ideological sincerity is irrelevant.
—Tom Nichols, The Atlantic, 23 Feb. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for irrelevant
Adjective
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But that’s a dangerous game of both spring training numbers, which are largely meaningless, and small sample sizes.—
Sahadev Sharma,
New York Times,
9 Mar. 2026
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What on Tuesday night looked like a largely meaningless game with only minor seeding implications at the conference tournament suddenly took on greater importance 24 hours later.—
Mark Zeigler,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
6 Mar. 2026
Adjective
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The Epstein island police activity, for example, is likely immaterial to anyone betting on markets related to Jeffrey Epstein on Polymarket.—
Joe Wilkins,
Futurism,
5 Mar. 2026
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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
Adjective
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In 2023, the Supreme Court declared the bill inapplicable.—
Javier Bastardo,
Forbes.com,
1 Aug. 2025
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Here are the kicking motion rules, which the NHL deemed inapplicable given their determination that Hellebuyck propelled the puck into his own net.—
Murat Ates,
New York Times,
12 May 2025
Adjective
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Each has been given extraneous dramatic business, perhaps to balance the scales with Oliver and Ciara, and to underscore that this is a show about two sets of couples, their trust issues and their need for one another.—
Television Critic,
Los Angeles Times,
18 Feb. 2026
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Others see them as extraneous measures for pet projects that balloon congressional spending.—
Lisa Hagen,
Hartford Courant,
13 Feb. 2026
Adjective
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Generative AI in medicine is neither universally embraced as perfect nor completely dismissed as useless.—
Robert Pearl,
Twin Cities,
8 Mar. 2026
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Computer nerds who’ve never left their basements and mama’s cooking are trying, and have taken over the sport with useless numbers, or analytics.—
Nick Canepa,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
7 Mar. 2026
Adjective
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The choice to portray her as irritating, self-absorbed, whiny and inappropriate was no accident.—
Kelly Lawler,
USA Today,
12 Mar. 2026
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At first, the teen denied having an inappropriate relationship with Rivera.—
Meredith Colias-Pete,
Chicago Tribune,
11 Mar. 2026
Adjective
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That your answer is not believed by these nosy, impertinent people is insulting.—
Judith Martin,
Mercury News,
19 Dec. 2025
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Every player was given a number and slips of paper and wrote impertinent questions intended for each of the others.—
Michael Schulman,
New Yorker,
15 Dec. 2025
Adjective
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That principle is inapposite when a limited liability company has only one member.—
Jay Adkisson,
Forbes.com,
27 Apr. 2025
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The Supreme Court indeed raised Flood and explained the cases were, at best, inapposite.—
Marc Edelman,
Forbes,
21 June 2021
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“Irrelevant.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/irrelevant. Accessed 13 Mar. 2026.
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