How to Use pertinence in a Sentence

pertinence

noun
Definition of pertinencenext
Synonyms for pertinencenext
  • He’ll be remembered for the high quality of his movies and for their pertinence.
    — Brent Lang, Variety, 26 July 2022
  • During these episodes players are given a small range of questions to choose from and are graded at the end of the interrogation on the pertinence of their choices.
    — Washington Post, 21 May 2021
  • Bears talk a good story, and their voices gain pertinence in the financial media when stock markets are falling.
    — Jon Markman, Forbes, 11 July 2022
  • His stature in world history is arguably comparable too—and there is a special pertinence to his heritage.
    — Tunku Varadarajan, WSJ, 7 Jan. 2022
  • But energy analysts largely dismiss the cap’s pertinence to prices, and some say the market’s thinking seems muddled.
    — Bob Henderson, WSJ, 30 Nov. 2022
  • Yet the singularity of 1968 does not diminish its pertinence to our present turmoil.
    — Rachel Aviv, The New Yorker, 10 Feb. 2018
  • Nnaji herself responded to Ava’s tweet shortly after — thanking her for her comments and shedding light on the film’s language pertinence.
    — Sara Delgado, Teen Vogue, 5 Nov. 2019
  • There can be no denying the worth or pertinence of such an undertaking at a time when black men face acts of violence, incarceration and death on a seemingly day-to-day basis.
    — John Von Rhein, chicagotribune.com, 23 Feb. 2018
  • And, despite his order, Highberger wrote that the legal landscape would benefit from an appeals court weighing in on the pertinence of AB5 and the Dynamex decision to the trucking industry.
    — Carolyn Said, SFChronicle.com, 9 Jan. 2020
  • Now, however, attention must be paid to demonstrating the continuing pertinence of the Founders’ premises to places with the crackling energy of booming Arizona.
    — George F. Will, The Denver Post, 11 Mar. 2017
  • But realizing the play’s own kind of mortality—its slow shift from urgent cri de coeur to period piece mined for pertinence—bathes it in a loving new light, one that Elliott teases out gracefully in this production’s finest scenes.
    — Richard Lawson, Vanities, 26 Mar. 2018
  • Normally, the byzantine workings of academic-tenure review are of little pertinence to anyone beyond the individuals involved.
    — Jelani Cobb, The New Yorker, 29 May 2021
  • Fortunately, the Democratic field includes one person familiar with Thucydides’ warning and who is unafraid to assert its contemporary pertinence.
    — George F. Will, The Denver Post, 14 July 2019
  • More meetings with less institutional pertinence, more managing up.
    — Peggy Noonan, WSJ, 20 May 2021
  • Considerations such as possible poetry pertinence are made based on responses to an intake questionnaire emailed after booking.
    — New York Times, 19 Mar. 2021
  • In selecting signature causes, business pertinence beats democracy.
    — David Hessekiel, Forbes, 27 Dec. 2021

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