adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
almost
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Disgraceful, if true; but almost irrelevant .
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The gay aspects of the story are almost irrelevant .
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Whether the tape said to be in the possession of a national newspaper is genuine or not seemed last night almost irrelevant .
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To me, the top Teamster officers seem disconnected from the Teamsters, almost irrelevant to it.
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In a world where guns are readily available, decommissioning is almost irrelevant , having only a symbolic meaning.
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In any event, according to Bethe, the test had become almost irrelevant by that time.
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The fact that we create the artwork electronically is almost irrelevant - it's the words that really count.
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But his part in the proceedings had been made almost irrelevant .
as
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The civil service and institutions based on this style see feeling as irrelevant in work performance.
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For years, I tried to fathom the mentality that simply waves off concern about the cost of regulations as irrelevant .
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Today, the argument goes, old-fashioned barriers separating countries, and even continents, are as irrelevant as the Berlin Wall.
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Because of this statistics are often dismissed as irrelevant or to be left to specialists.
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The gender of a subject is treated as irrelevant , unless it is under specific investigation.
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It retreats into the ghetto and dismisses the work of the historian as irrelevant to its needs.
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Yet one would hesitate to describe these lines as irrelevant .
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Scientists for their part have tended to consider the layman's admiration as their right and the real world as irrelevant .
completely
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What puzzles a philosopher and taxes his mind to distraction may look completely irrelevant or quite obvious to a businessman.
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U., studying some arcane subject that turned out to be completely irrelevant .
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Trust me to find the completely irrelevant question.
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Is it a completely irrelevant coincidence that almost every person who makes large sums of money dresses up when they do business?
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Psychology has recently gained the respectability it should always have had with respect to pain, for two completely irrelevant reasons.
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The pages of the draft speech lay beside him, unattended, unimproved, and now completely irrelevant .
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His political views, however, were presumably not completely irrelevant .
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He's completely irrelevant to my life, and he always will be.
increasingly
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The Giral government, consisting entirely as it did of bourgeois Republicans, was increasingly irrelevant to the new situation.
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But that is an increasingly irrelevant justification for present attitudes.
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Blocs are being seen as increasingly irrelevant today largely because the global capitalist system is perceived as increasingly salient.
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Parliament and party became increasingly irrelevant , and trade unions and employers' associations came into positions of political prominence.
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The revolutionary intelligentsia seemed doomed to doctrinaire squabbles over increasingly irrelevant issues.
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Not only will human goodness be unable to operate effectively on such a system: it will become increasingly irrelevant to it.
largely
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The identity of the genitor in such cases is largely irrelevant .
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The comfort, or lack of it, at training camp is largely irrelevant .
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Where obligation is the key, policy is largely irrelevant .
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The precise timing of this process is largely irrelevant .
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By the late 1980s, debates surrounding the rate question became largely irrelevant .
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If films have little peripheral information in them then it may be that memory for such information is largely irrelevant .
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From the child's viewpoint arguments over management are largely irrelevant .
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Men are now recruited into a national labour pool and their home base is largely irrelevant to where they take ships.
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And compared with so self-evident a need, the matter of where the money was to come from was quite irrelevant .
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A testimony may be fascinating but at the same time quite irrelevant to the basic questions touching on faith and doubt.
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The fact that it was much pleasanter doing things for John was really quite irrelevant .
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The thrust and strain which has dominated these twenty-five years now seems quite irrelevant .
totally
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Think what a clutter there would be if your mind were filled with sights which were totally irrelevant to you!
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As l have just remarked, the particular physical embodiment of an algorithm is something totally irrelevant .
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Political and nationalistic considerations are totally irrelevant .
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The fact that Niall Grant was a very attractive man was totally irrelevant .
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It was pathetically inadequate for the poor and totally irrelevant for everyone else.
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Whether or not that helps to fill church pews is totally irrelevant .
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They have accorded it blind respect while considering it totally irrelevant to the real world.
■ NOUN
consideration
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This, the court said, was an irrelevant consideration which rendered his decision unlawful.
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This does not mean, however, that the effects of competition are always an irrelevant consideration .
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That it assaults the reputation of one outside the House is an incidental and irrelevant consideration .
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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"But I didn't know it was illegal to park here.'' "That's completely irrelevant .''
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Chris continued to annoy her with questions on totally irrelevant subjects.
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To many young people, the church seems outdated and irrelevant to modern times.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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It is irrelevant to the Purchaser whether or not the Vendors know the warranties are right or wrong so long as they accept the risk.
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Most Contemporaries will not make the transition; they will merely become dated and irrelevant and will eventually go out of print.
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Reinforced concrete is an example, and is not as irrelevant to motorised transport as you might think.
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That the environment is not animate enough to want to communicate with us is irrelevant .
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The proposals in this Gracious Speech are either irrelevant or positively damaging to the raising of school standards.
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This is not to say that power in organizations has become so diffuse and fleeting that it is irrelevant .
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What is striking about these undoubtedly well-meaning suggestions is how irrelevant most are to the actual crisis of transmission.