inessential

Example Sentences

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She treats the question as compulsory but perhaps inessential.

From Salon • Oct. 30, 2024

The commentary was no less inessential with the addition of Jimmy Fallon, who also has a show on NBC.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 11, 2024

The first “Rebel Moon,” released on Netflix in December, made audiences endure a gantlet of narrative groundwork that’s fairly inessential and recapped here.

From New York Times • Apr. 19, 2024

MAP, deemed inessential, was cut, and the program dissolved within a few years.

From Scientific American • Aug. 28, 2023

If you want to see this faith in all its naïveté go into those quaint rationalist circles where Herbert Spencer's ghost announces the "laws of life," with only a few inessential details omitted.

From A Preface to Politics by Lippmann, Walter