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superfluous

[soo-pur-floo-uhs] / sʊˈpɜr flu əs /


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Building another in an area close to the big Chinese military bases on Hainan seems superfluous.

From BBC • Jun. 3, 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

Italians mastered how to create a food culture built around comfort and family without being superfluous.

From Salon • Jan. 24, 2026

“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

If you get tricked and a good person dies in the movie then you can rewrite it in your head so the good person lives and the part about death is superfluous.

From "Mockingbird" by Kathryn Erskine




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