superfluity
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Thankfully, YA novelist Robin Wasserman’s 2016 adult debut, “Girls on Fire,” boasts a superfluity of violently intense female friendship to tide us over until Season 3.
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 19, 2023
But, a little paradoxically, the collection is most valuable when it’s proving its own superfluity: The best material is what made it onto the completed record.
From New York Times • Oct. 3, 2022
The sequel serves up plenty for specialists to chew on, not least a Jack Nicholson look-alike—insofar as that’s possible—behind the hotel bar, yet these semi-reconstructions betray an odd sense of superfluity and strain.
From The New Yorker • Nov. 8, 2019
Under low light, these faded, wispy clippings from the cutting-room floor suggest a superfluity of ideas that might have supplied a lifetime of inspiration to other artists.
From Washington Post • Oct. 18, 2019
They might freely eat all kinds of meats according to the rule of the gospel, avoiding all excess and superfluity, yea, and that at all times.
From Medieval English Nunneries c. 1275 to 1535 by Power, Eileen
Vocabulary lists containing superfluity
Walden
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The Merchant of Venice
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Jane Eyre
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