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unnecessarily

ADVERB
needlessly
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Adult staffers watch, but try to avoid telling kids to be careful unnecessarily.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 29, 2026

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

Football in Glasgow's goldfish bowl has a habit of being unnecessarily dramatised, yet there is a case for saying a week in mid-September could have a defining impact on Celtic's season.

From BBC ● Sep. 17, 2026

They are quick of hearing and sharp-eyed, and though they are inclined to be fat and do not hurry unnecessarily, they are nonetheless nimble and deft in their movements.

From "The Fellowship of the Ring" by J.R.R. Tolkien




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