relevant

In a sentence

Six example sentences with relevant, each labelled with its topic.

• The judge ruled the old emails relevant, since they described the same shipment the contract dispute turned on.

  Law

• A premise can be perfectly true and still not relevant, which is the first thing the logic course teaches.

  Philosophy

• The search returned nine thousand results and perhaps four were relevant to the crash we were actually chasing.

  Technology

• The doctor asked about relevant family history, since two cousins with the same heart trouble changed the risk entirely.

  Medicine

• Investors only want metrics relevant to the pitch, so cut the vanity numbers and show paying customers.

  Startups

• The archivist pulled every relevant ledger from 1840, ignoring the shelves of church records that had nothing to say.

  History

Found in these word lists

Each source is a published word list that contains relevant. No exam board publishes an official GRE, GMAT or SAT list; GMAT words come from GRE lists and the Academic Word List.

More Academic words

• controversy
• participation
• intervene
• complexity
• communicating
• projection
• assure
• unified
• verify
• structured
• overall
• releasing