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
Playing Cleveland close would be a quality first step back toward relevance.
Nov. 19 vs. Warriors: Jimmy Butler’s return last season after his trade to Golden State was met with a chorus of jeers.
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Ira Winderman, Sun Sentinel, 16 Aug. 2025
Bay Area News Group advertising leadership oversees sponsored, native, and paid content on this platform, ensuring its quality, relevance, and helpfulness for our audience.
—Anthony Lopez, Mercury News, 15 Aug. 2025
Affiliate marketing and publisher commerce content could lose relevance if agents bypass their links entirely.
—Jason Goldberg, Forbes.com, 9 Aug. 2025
But the company is fighting back by working to rebuild cultural relevance, starting with football and expanding into team sports.
—Jean E. Palmieri, Footwear News, 8 Aug. 2025
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Ira Winderman, Sun Sentinel, 16 Aug. 2025
Bay Area News Group advertising leadership oversees sponsored, native, and paid content on this platform, ensuring its quality, relevance, and helpfulness for our audience.
—Anthony Lopez, Mercury News, 15 Aug. 2025
Affiliate marketing and publisher commerce content could lose relevance if agents bypass their links entirely.
—Jason Goldberg, Forbes.com, 9 Aug. 2025
But the company is fighting back by working to rebuild cultural relevance, starting with football and expanding into team sports.
—Jean E. Palmieri, Footwear News, 8 Aug. 2025
See All Example Sentences for relevance
Recent Examples of Synonyms for relevance
relevancy
Noun
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His constitutional rights, particularly the Eighth Amendment, fails relevancy here because Kohberger is segregated from all other inmates, thus being reasonably protected from physical harm.—
Michael Ruiz,
FOXNews.com,
22 Aug. 2025
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In 2022, spurred on by how streaming and vinyl sales afforded her a continuing and lucrative relevancy, Melanie and her manager, Dave Thompson, delved into her voluminous archives to develop deluxe reissues of her entire album catalog.—
Marcus K. Dowling,
The Tennessean,
21 Aug. 2025
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“Relevance.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/relevance. Accessed 30 Aug. 2025.
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