as in relevancy
the fact or state of being pertinent
I appreciate that you did the dishes tonight, but that has no relevance to my enforcement of the punishment you got earlier this week
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Relevance
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Recent Examples of relevance
And as the audio space evolves into whatever comes next — the network’s foundation ensures its relevance.
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Jessica Bennett, VIBE.com, 5 Nov. 2025
The move ultimately follows challenges faced by Mac to retain cultural relevance in a competitive market.
—Vogue Business Team, Vogue, 4 Nov. 2025
Our International Space Station work also demonstrates the relevance of social science research for solving all kinds of problems – even ones that seem to be purely technical, like living in space.
—Justin St. P. Walsh, The Conversation, 31 Oct. 2025
Perplexity has built in multiple layers of AI to stop a hacker from using a prompt injection attack to actually read someone’s emails or steal money, Ma said, and downplayed the relevance of Brave’s research that illustrated those attacks.
—Kevin Collier, NBC news, 31 Oct. 2025
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Jessica Bennett, VIBE.com, 5 Nov. 2025
The move ultimately follows challenges faced by Mac to retain cultural relevance in a competitive market.
—Vogue Business Team, Vogue, 4 Nov. 2025
Our International Space Station work also demonstrates the relevance of social science research for solving all kinds of problems – even ones that seem to be purely technical, like living in space.
—Justin St. P. Walsh, The Conversation, 31 Oct. 2025
Perplexity has built in multiple layers of AI to stop a hacker from using a prompt injection attack to actually read someone’s emails or steal money, Ma said, and downplayed the relevance of Brave’s research that illustrated those attacks.
—Kevin Collier, NBC news, 31 Oct. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for relevance
relevancy
Noun
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The tech giant has the social currency, now Apple wants to ride the F1 wave, its new brand, and its newfound partnerships, to streaming relevancy.—
Alex Weprin,
HollywoodReporter,
18 Oct. 2025
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Daboll needed to guide the Giants back to relevancy in the NFC East this year, but thus far, his team has continued to struggle.—
Mike Jones,
New York Times,
9 Oct. 2025
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“Relevance.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/relevance. Accessed 8 Nov. 2025.
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