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extraneous

[ik-strey-nee-uhs] / ɪkˈstreɪ ni əs /




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"The LNF is an amazing facility," Gong said, adding it was a painstaking process to meld the device's materials together in a way that didn't introduce any extraneous electric fields.

From Science Daily Jul. 28, 2026

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

Her ballerina background, however, is fairly extraneous, even with De Armas made to stare solemnly at that blasted music box during her rare moments of rest.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 5, 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

Standards don’t stop innovation, added Cawley, they just clear away a lot of extraneous stuff so you can focus on what really matters.

From "The World Is Flat" by Thomas L. Friedman




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