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This is particularly pertinent if a parent or grandparent belongs to the Jewish religion.† (source)
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Do you have any other questions of pertinence to your situation?† (source)
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Her choice in art seemed eerily pertinent to tonight's adventure.† (source)
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Did I remain businesslike and ask pertinent questions?† (source)
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Merrill's passages being more "pertinent," Mr. Wiggin's more flowery.† (source)
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There had to be some much briefer, and simpler, way to thank Hobie and say what I had to say: namely, that he shouldn't feel bad, he'd always been good to me and done his best to help me, just as my mother and I had done our best to help this baby pit bull, who—it was actually a pertinent point, only I didn't want to spin the story out too long—for all her sweet-tempered qualities had been incredibly destructive in the days leading to her death, she'd pretty much destroyed the whole apartment and ripped our sofa to pieces.† (source)
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The only way Driggers could have profited was by secretly selling the pertinent information to a private manufacturer.† (source)
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"And why didn't you want to?" he asked pertinently.† (source)
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They were about the same in other towns, but the Salinas Row has a pertinence to this telling.† (source)
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For common gifts, necessity makes pertinences and beauty every day, and one is glad when an imperative leaves him no option, since if the man at the door have no shoes, you have not to consider whether you could procure him a paint-box.† (source)
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...To withhold such emotionally disturbing but medically nonpertinent details ...is in the best tradition of responsible clinical practice.† (source)nonpertinent = not having logical relevance to the matter at handstandard prefix: The prefix "non-" in nonpertinent means not and reverses the meaning of pertinent. This is the same pattern you see in words like nonfat, nonfiction, and nonprofit.
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Overruled; it's pertinent.† (source)
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Still more pertinently, who was the moral woman?† (source)
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The pertinence of the question checked Selden's fugitive impulse before the train had started.† (source)
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But all of that was pertinent only in the night, and had nothing to do with the man you loved, at least in daylight.† (source)
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The hostess pertinently remarked that she, as eldest son, might surely rank among the millionaire's legatees.† (source)
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