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Poet Amanda Gorman, who served as sometime narrator, added unnecessary glamour.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 26, 2026

The National Transportation Safety Board determined the burn was unnecessary and based on misleading and incomplete information from Norfolk Southern and contractors.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 25, 2026

The government said it wanted to stop the "endless treadmill of unnecessary resits".

From BBC ● Aug. 20, 2026

I’m kidding: Even under normal circumstances, giving private companies this much power is likely to incentivize inventing enemies to fight or drive unnecessary spending.

From Salon ● Aug. 17, 2026

More to avoid watching this irritating sight than anything else, Harry bent over the Half-Blood Prince’s book and turned a few pages with unnecessary force.

From "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" by J.K. Rowling

There are some great songs on it, but they're smothered in unnecessaries that made it really cloudy.

From The Guardian ● May 23, 2013

She has the air of somebody who has reached a point in her life where she is dispensing with the unnecessaries.

From Time Magazine Archive

Now, how luxurious, how stuffed with shameful, wasteful unnecessaries those drawers and closets seemed!

From Susan Lenox: Her Fall and Rise by David Graham Phillips

I say, pater, do come up while I toss a few unnecessaries into my case.—That's right, Brown; put my bag in my room.

From The Parts Men Play by Arthur Beverley Baxter

No mission chest piously outfitted at home ever carried to the remote heathen a more useless assortment of unnecessaries than this one brought to me.

From The Portal of Dreams by Charles Neville Buck