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extraneous

[ik-strey-nee-uhs] / ɪkˈstreɪ ni əs /




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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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