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
By deepening content relevance and restructuring for machine comprehension — while competitors remained vague, promotional, and poorly formatted — this brand became the reference point in its category.
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Aviv Shamny, Fortune, 29 Mar. 2026
Once a week at the start of the Falcons’ open gym, players would sit in a circle on the floor to discuss the book and its relevance to Highlands Ranch’s goals for this winter.
—Kyle Newman, Denver Post, 29 Mar. 2026
So with the Tar Heels on the hunt for their next head coach to try and bring them back to national relevance, odds have shifted by the day on who the favorite is to take over the helm in Chapel Hill.
—Tyler Erzberger, MSNBC Newsweek, 29 Mar. 2026
That gave Schiaparelli’s clothing a sense of relevance in pre-World War II Europe’s cultural upheaval and aesthetically traditionalist Paris — a methodology that Roseberry has picked up.
—Rachel Tashjian, CNN Money, 28 Mar. 2026
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Aviv Shamny, Fortune, 29 Mar. 2026
Once a week at the start of the Falcons’ open gym, players would sit in a circle on the floor to discuss the book and its relevance to Highlands Ranch’s goals for this winter.
—Kyle Newman, Denver Post, 29 Mar. 2026
So with the Tar Heels on the hunt for their next head coach to try and bring them back to national relevance, odds have shifted by the day on who the favorite is to take over the helm in Chapel Hill.
—Tyler Erzberger, MSNBC Newsweek, 29 Mar. 2026
That gave Schiaparelli’s clothing a sense of relevance in pre-World War II Europe’s cultural upheaval and aesthetically traditionalist Paris — a methodology that Roseberry has picked up.
—Rachel Tashjian, CNN Money, 28 Mar. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for relevance
relevancy
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What the stars wear to the Dolby Theater in March is the culmination of months of business negotiations between talent agencies, stylists and fashion houses, generating millions of views for brands and, when successful, can cement an actor’s relevancy in a fast-moving industry.—
Leah Dolan,
CNN Money,
16 Mar. 2026
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He was drafted a few months before president Paul DePodesta and general manager Josh Byrnes took over, but his road could mirror the organization’s return to relevancy.—
Troy Renck,
Denver Post,
15 Mar. 2026
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“Relevance.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/relevance. Accessed 3 Apr. 2026.
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