extraneous
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Extraneous dancers and supernumeraries flood Phelim McDermott’s production at the Met.
From New York Times • May 6, 2024
Extraneous items tend to fill up the visual space.
From Seattle Times • May 16, 2023
Extraneous details and exaggerations could make you easier to dismiss.
From Seattle Times • Dec. 19, 2022
Extraneous to the novel itself, but not irrelevant to its fate, is the seven-figure advance that is said to have resulted from a ten-bidder auction before last year’s London Book Fair.
From The New Yorker • May 23, 2016
Testing-Glass for Extraneous Matter in Milk 62 7.—
From The Bacillus of Long Life a manual of the preparation and souring of milk for dietary purposes, together with and historical account of the use of fermente by Douglas, Loudon
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