as in irrelevance
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Recent Examples of irrelevancy
Does Anthony Davis really want to spend the rest of his prime in the shadows of irrelevancy?
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Bill Plaschke, Los Angeles Times, 9 Dec. 2024
Despite Chutkan’s statement about irrelevancy, the Jan. 6 criminal case and the 2024 presidential election are linked by one person — Donald Trump.
—Michael McAuliffe, Sun Sentinel, 17 Sep. 2024
This takes me to my second point, namely that an AI-based chain-of-thought should be explicitly designed and constructed to rapidly distinguish relevancy versus irrelevancy.
—Lance Eliot, Forbes, 27 Sep. 2024
And what follows this astonishing statement is a tangle of qualifications and irrelevancies trailing off into the footnotes.
—Leif Wenar, WIRED, 27 Mar. 2024
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Bill Plaschke, Los Angeles Times, 9 Dec. 2024
Despite Chutkan’s statement about irrelevancy, the Jan. 6 criminal case and the 2024 presidential election are linked by one person — Donald Trump.
—Michael McAuliffe, Sun Sentinel, 17 Sep. 2024
This takes me to my second point, namely that an AI-based chain-of-thought should be explicitly designed and constructed to rapidly distinguish relevancy versus irrelevancy.
—Lance Eliot, Forbes, 27 Sep. 2024
And what follows this astonishing statement is a tangle of qualifications and irrelevancies trailing off into the footnotes.
—Leif Wenar, WIRED, 27 Mar. 2024
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“Irrelevancy.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/irrelevancy. Accessed 24 Apr. 2025.
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