extraneous

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That they’re the only black principals brings something new to the story, and alliance, and something extraneous to the message of Hedda’s social suffocation and the motive for her misdeeds.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 28, 2025

And he throws in seemingly extraneous references to British troops hearing bagpipes and to Lord Lovat of Scotland.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 3, 2025

"He was just quietly sitting there, taking script pages out, cutting them up, removing extraneous stuff like scene descriptions, and then sticking them back onto blank pages," he said.

From BBC • Mar. 1, 2025

For an even more extraneous cinematic reference, Barry Keoghan reprises his role from Banshees of Inisherin for Squarespace … a service that sells a domain-making tool.

From Slate • Feb. 10, 2025

They have no compulsion to prevent one coming to harm through an extraneous agency such as gamma rays.

From "I, Robot" by Isaac Asimov