superfluous
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Another wait ensued: Superfluous as it seemed, the coroner conducted an autopsy.
From Washington Post • Jun. 3, 2018
Superfluous, perhaps, but still necessary: Mr. Obama has spoken more than a dozen times after mass shootings.
From New York Times • Jul. 18, 2016
Benjamin Franklin once quipped that the Vice President should be addressed as “your Superfluous Excellency.”
From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2016
The thinking here is largely consequentialist: Superfluous injury and unnecessary suffering are inherently wasteful.
From Slate • Nov. 13, 2012
Superfluous R’s: Many persons pronounce words which have no letter r in them, exactly as though they had; as drawring for drawing; “I sawr Thomas,” for “I saw,” &c.
From Five Hundred Mistakes of Daily Occurrence in Speaking, Pronouncing, and Writing the English Language, Corrected by Anonymous
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