unnecessarily
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A major part of the challenge was generating enough useful training data to teach the policy how to handle aggressive maneuvers without creating an unnecessarily large data set.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 22, 2026
One young man observed that even the way I’d characterized the change in Bitcoin’s price as a loss of value was unnecessarily pessimistic.
From Slate ● Sep. 20, 2026
Denise Howarth is one of several women who have now been told by the NHS that their breast was removed unnecessarily.
From BBC ● Sep. 17, 2026
But her observation that the adjective “selfy” was coined by a 17th-century Scottish minister and meant to deride self-centeredness comes across as unnecessarily avuncular information.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 15, 2026
“Mrs. Buckman,” he said, “perhaps you would like to retract those last words? They seem unnecessarily harsh.”
From "Flora & Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures" by Kate DiCamillo
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