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

You might even define a great artist by the ability to pitilessly remove the inessential, no matter how clever the sentence or brilliant the movement composition.

From New York Times • Sep. 11, 2023

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

From Scientific American • Aug. 28, 2023

Curll simply agrees with Gulliver-Swift, and reinforces the meaning by practically repeating the text, as he does at this point when deploring inessential differences in ritual as needless causes of cruel conflict.

From A Letter From a Clergyman to his Friend, with an Account of the Travels of Captain Lemuel Gulliver by Kallich, Martin