How to Use germane in a Sentence
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All of this seems more germane to the Voting Rights Act arguments.
—Charles P. Pierce, Esquire, 25 May 2016
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But at this point, the most germane and crucial happenings in the Hub of Hardball in 2019 aren’t going to take place on the field during the season.
—Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 21 Aug. 2019
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Apply your spare time to studying a subject that is germane to your career.
—Tribune Content Agency, oregonlive, 10 Nov. 2019
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Whether there are good uses for the currencies isn’t really germane, and there don’t appear to be, at least not yet.
—Mark Zandi, Philly.com, 26 Jan. 2018
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House members said this bill would fix the sunset issues, despite Patrick’s earlier claims that an amendment on the bill wasn’t germane and wouldn’t fix the problem.
—Anna M. Tinsley, star-telegram.com, 28 May 2017
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Nothing that is not germane to his work as a consulting detective is allowed to clutter up his mind.
—Simon Callow, New York Times, 17 May 2017
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The fact that the owner was not the person (involved in the alleged prostitution) does not really seem to be germane to our ordinances.
—John Sharp | Jsharp@al.com, al, 23 Oct. 2019
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But prosecutors can counter that the past misconduct is not germane to the specific case being tried.
—Max Londberg, Cincinnati.com, 10 Oct. 2019
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That’s because these questions are more germane than candidate support in an election so far off.
—G. Elliott Morris, ABC News, 26 Sep. 2023
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Why did Mark Zuckerberg not disclose him to Congress, especially when that would have been extremely germane to the subject of the hearing?
—David Carroll, WIRED, 15 June 2018
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These concepts are germane to both the current black political and media moment, as well as in figuring out just what to think about Parker.
—Vann R. Newkirk Ii, The Atlantic, 20 Oct. 2016
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Thus, the Trump administration has decided to pretend that those worries are germane to the agreement.
—Eric Levitz, Daily Intelligencer, 11 Sep. 2017
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Or perhaps his anti-Trump, pro-Clinton sentiments were not germane to his mere copy editing or his reliance on a thesaurus.
—Victor Davis Hanson, National Review, 12 Dec. 2017
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He was mystified that the foundation would keep information from judges that is germane to their duties as voters.
—Julia Moskin, New York Times, 31 May 2023
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If a good portion of Siri’s functionality isn’t even germane to the desktop experience, why even deliver a port?
—Christina Bonnington, WIRED, 17 Feb. 2012
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In the end, even as American and United close their gaps with Delta, the most germane answer to why Delta appears to enjoy a structural advantage for profitability is simply a function of where the airline flies.
—Justin Bachman, Bloomberg.com, 14 July 2017
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Byrne said that any call for gun control would require careful scrutiny to see if proposals were germane to the situation and legally viable.
—Lawrence Specker, AL.com, 19 Feb. 2018
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Danielle Weston, a board member who also expressed skepticism about Azaiez from the beginning, told Fox News board members would allow non-germane comments at the many school board meetings.
—Tyler O'Neil, Fox News, 12 Jan. 2022
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The insight of the movie - delivered amid a torrent of half-germane, half-gratuitous raunch - is that lust, dissatisfaction and restlessness have a way of manifesting themselves at every age and stage of life.
—Justin Chang, latimes.com, 21 Jan. 2017
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Because some recent winters have been wet and California’s big reservoirs are fuller than average, prophesies of a dry year ahead are not as worrisome, though the question of snow remains germane.
—Kurtis Alexander, SFChronicle.com, 17 Oct. 2019
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With no hope of talking SB 1 to death, Alvarado was allowed to continue as Republicans declined to call the points of order that — if upheld three times for non-germane discussions — would have ended the filibuster.
—Chuck Lindell, USA TODAY, 12 Aug. 2021
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Beaverton police ask anyone who might have information that might be germane to the homicide investigation to contact Det.
—The Oregonian/oregonlive, oregonlive, 28 Feb. 2023
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Republicans can challenge amendments as not being germane or not being budgetary in nature.
—Erik Wasson, Bloomberg.com, 26 June 2017
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The first set of merchants arguably most germane to PCMag readers are the makers of computers and technology that sell directly to customers, both online and off--but most sell online exclusively.
—Eric Griffith, PCMAG, 26 July 2023
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Second Circuit: The auction house must produce documents germane to the foreign litigation.
—Eugene Volokh, Washington Post, 4 Sep. 2017
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Sundays through June 11, includes monologues and ensemble pieces centered on women, clothing and memories of prom, buying a bra after having cancer and other topics germane to women’s lives.
—Sheryl Devore, Chicago Tribune, 25 May 2023
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Bork and his supporters argued that his "academic" writings and his speeches were not germane to whether he should be confirmed.
—Elizabeth Drew, New Yorker, 2 Nov. 1987
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As recent conflicts in Iraq, Afghanistan, and elsewhere show, questions about postwar responsibilities are increasingly germane, and murky.
—Karen J. Coates, The Christian Science Monitor, 16 Aug. 2017
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When a Republican legislator objected to the amendment as not being germane to the underlying bill, the Democratic majority stopped the debate.
—Christopher Keating, courant.com, 4 May 2018
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While season 1 tackled several hot topics, season 2 goes even further, examining a range of subjects germane to Indian society and beyond.
—Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 30 Aug. 2023
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