How to Use inapplicable in a Sentence

inapplicable

adjective
  • Your business might not have branches, but that doesn’t mean that this strategy is inapplicable.
    — Ming Zhu, Forbes.com, 6 Feb. 2026
  • Although lawyers in these cases have cited them, all seem clearly inapplicable.
    — David B. Rivkin Jr. and Lee A. Casey, WSJ, 19 Oct. 2020
  • Without a third party, the third party doctrine is inapplicable.
    — Jill Priluck, Slate Magazine, 11 Apr. 2017
  • The statute itself, the court says, doesn’t provide a civil cause of action, and the Whistleblower Act was inapplicable here.
    — Eugene Volokh, Washington Post, 27 Aug. 2017
  • That was the site of its preseason test days, although that event was held in unseasonably cold weather, which means much of what the teams learned then may be inapplicable this coming weekend.
    — ArsTechnica, 7 Apr. 2025
  • And for the same reasons, the foregone conclusion exception is inapplicable.
    — Jon Brodkin, Ars Technica, 14 Dec. 2023
  • In convicting her, the trial court ruled that the press law’s statute of limitations was inapplicable because the article did not qualify as proper journalism.
    — Thomas Grove, WSJ, 26 June 2018
  • But the business-to-business exception continues to be inapplicable to an individual who is not acting as a sole proprietor or formed as a business entity.
    — Dan Eaton, San Diego Union-Tribune, 14 Sep. 2020
  • The provision becomes inapplicable after a three year holding period and there is an exception for family partnerships.
    — Peter J Reilly, Forbes, 15 Sep. 2021
  • Wildfire concerns Since drought conditions are mostly inapplicable throughout the state currently, the lack of rain this monsoon doesn't bring increasing concerns.
    — Ellie Willard, The Arizona Republic, 6 June 2023
  • Other factors that are assumed to have rendered modern conquests unprofitable seem similarly inapplicable.
    — Peter Liberman, Foreign Affairs, 14 Mar. 2014
  • Paxton challenged the lawsuit, claiming the Texas Whistleblower Act is inapplicable.
    — Eden Villalovas, Washington Examiner, 26 May 2023
  • If a taxpayer is under the 199A taxable income threshold amounts and claimed the ERC, all of this is inapplicable.
    — Lynn Mucenski Keck, Forbes, 14 Mar. 2022
  • For New Jersey residents, the limitations set forth above are inapplicable where attorneys’ fees, court costs, or other damages are mandated by statute.
    — Outside Online, 3 June 2022
  • Fubo insists the defendants are misconstruing its argument and citing inapplicable precedent.
    — Michael McCann, Sportico.com, 13 Aug. 2024
  • Indeed, whereas a sitting president might raise concerns about distraction from their official duties, that concern is obviously inapplicable here.
    — Grace Segers, CBS News, 9 Feb. 2021
  • Its primary argument, unsurprisingly, takes on just how outdated and inapplicable the law the FBI has invoked is.
    — Kim Zetter and Brian Barrett, WIRED, 25 Feb. 2016
  • Taxpayers could avoid gross-basis withholding by electing net-basis taxation on qualified profits, defined to render transfer pricing inapplicable.
    — Robert Goulder, Forbes, 3 Mar. 2021
  • These are responses that may sound correct at first, but turn out to be wrong (like your crazy uncle’s Thanksgiving table advice), often due to inapplicable or inaccurate information being used to train the models.
    — Dean Debiase, Forbes, 25 Nov. 2024
  • The particulars of when and how the privilege applies to someone like Bannon are thorny, but luckily are largely inapplicable to Mueller’s investigation.
    — Cristian Farias, Daily Intelligencer, 20 Jan. 2018
  • The overlay would make the ordinance inapplicable in certain areas identified as vulnerable to gentrification.
    — Ella McCarthy, Austin American-Statesman, 23 Sep. 2024
  • Lobachevsky’s work seemed to be a mathematical curiosity of immense theoretical importance — but entirely inapplicable to the real world.
    — Julie Rehmeyer, Discover Magazine, 10 Mar. 2014
  • She's accused of pretending to provide services by filing inapplicable immigration forms with immigration authorities.
    — Alene Tchekmedyian, latimes.com, 20 Apr. 2018
  • The only way to get around a legally applicable privilege would be to seek an order of immunity, which would protect the witness from criminal exposure and therefore render the Fifth Amendment inapplicable.
    — Juliet S. Sorensen, Fortune, 4 Aug. 2017
  • These Penal Code gambling prohibitions are not rendered inapplicable by a sweepstakes operator’s compliance with state-law sweepstakes requirements (such as by offering free methods of entry).
    — Daniel Wallach, Forbes, 25 Feb. 2025
  • The Times story outlines how UMG attempted to downplay the situation and keep it quiet as possible, which foreshadows how artists would likely argue that the statute of limitations is inapplicable in the face of fraudulent concealment.
    — Eriq Gardner, Billboard, 19 June 2019
  • The World Health Organization’s advice on Covid-19, for instance, is largely inapplicable in slums, where maintaining social distance is impossible in overcrowded housing.
    — Flavie Halais, Wired, 1 June 2020
  • Another possible argument is the arbitrators’ decision is irrational given the evidence and testimony or, similarly, the arbitrators relied on materials and insights that were inapplicable or vulnerable to bias.
    — Michael McCann, Sportico.com, 4 Nov. 2024
  • In a recent conversation with Peter Diamandis, an entrepreneur and executive chairman of the XPrize Foundation, Musk fleshed out his moonshot visions for the future, which have previously included work being completely optional and retirement becoming inapplicable.
    — Sasha Rogelberg, Fortune, 12 June 2026

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