extraneous

Example Sentences

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And a solo for limber Yuniel Betancourt that is meant to serve as punctuation feels more extraneous than conclusive.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 17, 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

On Jan. 24, Wegmans issued a recall for its store-brand frozen, breaded chicken breast nuggets over possible contamination with extraneous material, specifically bone fragments.

From Salon • Jan. 30, 2025

Vitrines holding wildly different white or black objects make no sense, because whatever might be the specific visual point of the art objects is extraneous.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 22, 2024

“You know, I suppose,” she continued, “just exactly at what point in the assembly an extraneous factor was introduced or an essential one left out.”

From "I, Robot" by Isaac Asimov