How to Use irrelevancy in a Sentence

irrelevancy

noun
  • But defense has been at the root of their rise from irrelevancy to perennial contention in the past half-decade.
    — Anthony Slater, The Mercury News, 19 Apr. 2017
  • None of this leaves India as an irrelevancy for the world’s biggest companies.
    — The Economist, 11 Jan. 2018
  • As the Kings try to shuffle out of the darkness of irrelevancy, days such as Thursday provide rays of light.
    — Jack Harris, Los Angeles Times, 4 Oct. 2019
  • The fight against a feeling of irrelevancy was a long-standing fight against city government and many local businesses.
    — Boots Riley, HWD, 2 July 2018
  • Does Anthony Davis really want to spend the rest of his prime in the shadows of irrelevancy?
    — Bill Plaschke, Los Angeles Times, 9 Dec. 2024
  • At this point, the more relevant note is the irrelevancy of the radio in determining what people listen to.
    — Trevor Fraser, OrlandoSentinel.com, 11 July 2018
  • Overseeing a brand that has already come back from the brink of irrelevancy, Tornare is determined to keep Zenith on track.
    — Victoria Gomelsky, Robb Report, 29 Aug. 2022
  • Texas Democrats have fought extinction and irrelevancy for years at the Texas Capitol.
    — Houston Chronicle, 22 June 2018
  • The splintering of the media in recent years has only furthered the V-chip's irrelevancy.
    — David Grossman, Popular Mechanics, 12 Mar. 2018
  • But his departure means the Angels are now staring at years of irrelevancy if Moreno continues his youth-averse ways.
    — Gustavo Arellano, Los Angeles Times, 11 Dec. 2023
  • The singer, actress, entrepreneur, and mother has managed to dodge the dredges of irrelevancy by reinventing herself as the times change.
    — Shalwah Evans, Essence, 27 Sep. 2019
  • There are myriad reasons that a team went from five consecutive division titles to six straight seasons of irrelevancy.
    — Matt Gelb, Philly.com, 18 Dec. 2017
  • Among these strategies, volunteering is now seen as an effective way to battle irrelevancy and loneliness.
    — Sharon Jayson, Washington Post, 15 May 2018
  • Among these strategies, volunteering is now seen as an effective way to battle irrelevancy and loneliness.
    — Sharon Jayson, USA TODAY, 10 May 2018
  • In this wider political context, the debate over a provincial fishery tax, even if meant as a distraction, was hardly an irrelevancy.
    — Catherine Nicholson, New York Times, 10 Sep. 2025
  • To miss these transformations would relegate one to irrelevancy.
    — Paul Laudicina, Forbes, 12 Apr. 2021
  • While Shashouda says the stereotype was always false, Swift’s engagement also proves its irrelevancy.
    — Alyssa Goldberg, USA Today, 27 Aug. 2025
  • Casey’s claim to fame is catching a game-winning two-point conversion against Texas last week, sending the Longhorns program and fan base further into the abyss of irrelevancy.
    — Scooby Axson, USA TODAY, 22 Nov. 2021
  • Does this mean that the upcoming slate of Roald Dahl adaptation is doomed to low viewership and culturally irrelevancy?
    — Scott Mendelson, Forbes, 23 Sep. 2021
  • Other leagues compromise, grow and prosper while baseball bickers and battles and points its fingers at one another on a path toward national irrelevancy.
    — Bill Plaschke, Los Angeles Times, 1 Mar. 2022
  • That the company formerly known as Facebook is treading water, trying to stave off irrelevancy and oblivion by copying the cool kids of social media.
    — Andy Meek, BGR, 29 May 2022
  • Afterward, the franchise had been ground to dust during the listless inertia of the Manny Acta irrelevancy.
    — Bill Livingston, cleveland.com, 16 Feb. 2018
  • Because of the brand’s mechanical distinctiveness, the cars are harder to evolve and so risk technical irrelevancy in a market pursuing low and no emissions.
    — Dan Neil, WSJ, 9 Nov. 2018
  • And what follows this astonishing statement is a tangle of qualifications and irrelevancies trailing off into the footnotes.
    — Leif Wenar, WIRED, 27 Mar. 2024
  • At a time when the biggest threat facing most brands is irrelevancy, these marketers are fighting for brand relevancy and business growth with an unwavering commitment to making sure their marketing matters more.
    — Seth Matlins, Forbes, 26 Apr. 2022
  • By the 1970s, the Cowsills were a pop irrelevancy, various siblings saddled with substance and personal problems.
    — Steve Hochman, SPIN, 30 Sep. 2022
  • For the better part of 20 minutes Tuesday, the Michigan basketball season tipped toward irrelevancy with more than a month remaining.
    — Michael Cohen, Detroit Free Press, 9 Feb. 2022
  • The better question asks whether Michigan and Harbaugh believe there is reason to maintain the relationship long into the future given this year's slide into irrelevancy.
    — Paul Myerberg, USA TODAY, 28 Nov. 2020
  • With just five electoral votes, an aging, stagnant population and little in the way of economic dynamism, the Mountain State was a political irrelevancy.
    — Chris Stirewalt, Fox News, 2 May 2018
  • In the aftermath of the tragedy, what should have been Trapattoni's crowning achievement paled into irrelevancy, becoming a day remembered of unspeakable pain as opposed to unbridled joy.
    — SI.com, 12 Aug. 2019

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