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That process took days, involved fax machines, and, needless to say, offered no scratch-and-win prizes.
ROBINHOOD’S NEXT ADVENTURE: STEALING MARKET SHARE FROM THE RICHJEFFDECEMBER 3, 2020FORTUNEThe steps were needed to avoid risking “needless suffering and death,” he said.
LOS ANGELES’S NEW COVID LOCKDOWN BANS MOST WALKING, DRIVING AND USE OF PUBLIC TRANSPORTCLAIRE ZILLMAN, REPORTERDECEMBER 3, 2020FORTUNEDecoupling also implies needless fear of head-to-head competition, which we simply have to face and in which we continue to enjoy significant advantage.
CHINA: CHARTING A COURSE BETWEEN CONFLICT AND ACCOMMODATIONTRACY MORANOCTOBER 13, 2020OZYIt just seems to be a silly and needless risk given what has happened in the last 48 hours with the president.
CANDIDATES, DEBATE ORGANIZERS PUSH AHEAD WITH IN-PERSON EVENTS DESPITE PUBLIC HEALTH CONCERNSMICHAEL SCHEREROCTOBER 4, 2020WASHINGTON POSTAs a health care consumer in America, you are far more likely to be steered toward needless tests and procedures than away from them.
MY CANCER MIGHT BE BACK—AND I WONDER IF UNNECESSARY RADIATION CAUSED IT IN THE FIRST PLACEJAKEMETHSEPTEMBER 22, 2020FORTUNEBecause if that was to atone for man's sin, it was needless, as God could have forgiven man without Himself suffering.
GOD AND MY NEIGHBOURROBERT BLATCHFORDNeedless to say, the Worcestershire baronet had returned to his ancestral acres a sadder but a wiser man.
THE PIT TOWN CORONET, VOLUME I (OF 3)CHARLES JAMES WILLSIn writing K. I try to convey the truth in terms which will neither give him needless anxiety or undue confidence.
GALLIPOLI DIARY, VOLUME IIAN HAMILTONMr. Pontellier had a vague suspicion of it which he thought it needless to mention at that late day.
THE AWAKENING AND SELECTED SHORT STORIESKATE CHOPINThe needless insertions of little words in many of the 15th-century MSS.
CHAUCER'S WORKS, VOLUME 1 (OF 7) -- ROMAUNT OF THE ROSE; MINOR POEMSGEOFFREY CHAUCERWORDS RELATED TO NEEDLESS
- accidental
- additional
- avoidable
- beside the point
- casual
- causeless
- chance
- dispensable
- excess
- exorbitant
- expendable
- extraneous
- extrinsic
- fortuitous
- futile
- gratuitous
- haphazard
- irrelevant
- lavish
- needless
- noncompulsory
- nonessential
- optional
- prodigal
- profuse
- random
- redundant
- supererogatory
- superfluous
- surplus
- uncalled-for
- uncritical
- undesirable
- unessential
- unneeded
- unrequired
- useless
- wanton
- worthless
- boundless
- disproportionate
- dissipated
- dizzying
- enormous
- exaggerated
- exorbitant
- extra
- extravagant
- extreme
- immoderate
- indulgent
- inordinate
- intemperate
- limitless
- more
- needless
- over
- overboard
- overkill
- overmuch
- plethoric
- prodigal
- profligate
- recrementitious
- redundant
- self-indulgent
- sky-high
- steep
- stiff
- stratospheric
- super
- superabundant
- superfluous
- supernatural
- too many
- towering
- unbounded
- unconscionable
- undue
- unmeasurable
- unreasonable
- way-out
- boundless
- disproportionate
- dissipated
- dizzying
- enormous
- exaggerated
- exorbitant
- extra
- extravagant
- extreme
- immoderate
- indulgent
- inordinate
- intemperate
- limitless
- more
- needless
- over
- overabundant
- overboard
- overkill
- plethoric
- prodigal
- profligate
- recrementitious
- redundant
- self-indulgent
- sky-high
- steep
- stiff
- stratospheric
- super
- superabundant
- superfluous
- supernatural
- too many
- towering
- unbounded
- unconscionable
- undue
- unmeasurable
- unreasonable
- way-out
- aimless
- designless
- desultory
- drifting
- empty
- feckless
- floundering
- fustian
- goalless
- good-for-nothing
- haphazard
- hit-or-miss
- indiscriminate
- irregular
- meaningless
- motiveless
- needless
- nonsensical
- pointless
- purportless
- random
- senseless
- uncalled for
- undirected
- unhelpful
- unnecessary
- unplanned
- unprofitable
- unpurposed
- vacuous
- wanton
- worthless
- abounding
- de trop
- dispensable
- excess
- excessive
- exorbitant
- expendable
- extra
- extravagant
- extreme
- gratuitous
- in excess
- inessential
- inordinate
- lavish
- leftover
- needless
- nonessential
- overflowing
- overmuch
- pleonastic
- profuse
- redundant
- remaining
- residuary
- spare
- superabundant
- superfluent
- supernumerary
- surplus
- unasked
- uncalled-for
- unneeded
- unrequired
- unwanted
- useless
- abounding
- de trop
- dispensable
- excess
- excessive
- exorbitant
- expendable
- extravagant
- extreme
- gratuitous
- in excess
- inessential
- inordinate
- lavish
- leftover
- needless
- nonessential
- overflowing
- overmuch
- pleonastic
- profuse
- redundant
- remaining
- residuary
- spare
- superabundant
- supererogatory
- superfluent
- supernumerary
- surplus
- unasked
- uncalled-for
- unneeded
- unrequired
- unwanted
- useless
- disproportionate
- exceeding
- exorbitant
- extravagant
- extreme
- forbidden
- ill-timed
- illegal
- immoderate
- improper
- inappropriate
- inapt
- indecorous
- inept
- inordinate
- intemperate
- needless
- overmuch
- sinister
- too great
- too much
- unapt
- uncalled-for
- unconscionable
- underhanded
- undeserved
- unfair
- unfitting
- unjust
- unjustifiable
- unjustified
- unmeasurable
- unreasonable
- unseasonable
- unseemly
- unsuitable
- untimely
- unwarrantable
- unwarranted
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