irrelevancy

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Recent Examples of irrelevancy There was one series that could have given the ceremony a lift, a show that sparked so much passion from its audience that the Golden Globes leaned into it earlier this year to convince people to ignore its irrelevancy and boost its ratings. — Glenn Whipp, Los Angeles Times, 26 May 2026 Each player selected on Friday provides a building block for a franchise intent on digging itself out of irrelevancy, though questions remain around Las Vegas’s skill players entering the final day of the draft. — Sam Warren, New York Times, 25 Apr. 2026 While much of those streaming sales were non-sports commitments, the flow of ad dollars away from linear TV will accelerate as the primetime entertainment properties continue to sag under the weight of their cultural irrelevancy. — Anthony Crupi, Sportico.com, 13 Mar. 2026 While president of basketball operations Jeff Peterson hasn’t been known to work the phones on draft night, Charlotte’s front office is taking an opportunistic approach to emerge from NBA irrelevancy. — Hunter Bailey, Charlotte Observer, 23 June 2025 See All Example Sentences for irrelevancy
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irrelevance
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  • The Heat had slipped to mediocrity; worse, irrelevance.
    — Miami Herald, Miami Herald, 23 June 2026
  • In an era of AI and rapid change, treating customers as mere constraints is a recipe for irrelevance.
    — Steve Denning, Forbes.com, 21 June 2026
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“Irrelevancy.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/irrelevancy. Accessed 7 Jul. 2026.

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