superfluous
Example Sentences
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Even copies of years-old news articles are marred with superfluous redactions.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 4, 2026
Once again, artificial intelligence was at the center of the selloff, amid worries that software would be made superfluous by Anthropic’s Claude applications.
From Barron's • Feb. 7, 2026
The recordings were just as funny and weird and interesting as I remembered them; they didn’t seem dated, they didn’t seem superfluous, they weren’t something I was going to grow out of.
From Salon • Dec. 23, 2025
“Everything in the cabin, whether or not it made it into the final movie, was used and touched. There was nothing superfluous, really.”
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 15, 2025
The cosmetics that had seemed superfluous were necessary now, not to improve her but to define her somehow.
From "Interpreter of Maladies" by Jhumpa Lahiri
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