superfluous

Example Sentences

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A best picture Oscar for “Sinners” is damned near superfluous.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 10, 2026

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

His advice may have been superfluous, for when it was fully assembled, nine of the Lawrence panel’s twelve scientists were from Livermore.

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik