inessential

Example Sentences

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Is she only now understanding that “the more the essential world vanished the more people needed to fixate on the inessential world”? Did she really not know any of this?

From Washington Post

When people started avoiding restaurants, travel and inessential shopping last spring, the personal saving rate soared, and it has since only partly returned to normal.

From New York Times

Recently, I spoke by video chat with Metcalf, Turner and Stevens about adapting with the times over the podcast’s more than 650 episodes, critics as inessential workers and what art does in a crisis.

From New York Times

We are burned out because we are being rolled over by the wheels of an economy that has bafflingly declared working parents inessential.

From New York Times

Backstage, there’s a similar drill: no embracing, no handshakes, no inessential physical contact.

From New York Times