The nation's newspaper publishers were told they must change or risk becoming irrelevant.
At what age do pop stars become irrelevant these days?
At what point in time does any music style old or new become irrelevant?
However, there is the concern that art with no reference to context my become irrelevant.
With 160,000 troops in Iraq, the coalition is becoming irrelevant.
There were times I even wondered if my own job was becoming irrelevant.
The canvas, it seemed for a while, had become irrelevant.
It could be that the set of political arrangements which we have built up for so long has somehow become irrelevant.
Now a growing movement holds that these schools have become irrelevant, especially in urban areas.
Without a dynamic and growing economy, Europe would risk becoming irrelevant on the global scene.