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unnecessary

[uhn-nes-uh-ser-ee] / ʌnˈnɛs əˌsɛr i /


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Practical strategies include reducing unnecessary notifications, particularly from social media and messaging applications, and setting limits on time spent browsing social platforms.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 12, 2026

Full-body scans have also faced criticism from some healthcare professionals, who warn that the technology risks false positives, overdiagnoses, and unnecessary testing and anxiety.

From Slate ● Oct. 8, 2026

According to her notes, some said they found the internal conflict unnecessary.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 5, 2026

Critics of full-body scans, meanwhile, view them as unnecessary, citing low clinical yield and a cascade of follow-up scans.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 5, 2026

It seemed unnecessary, however, to court trouble by investigating the matter.

From "The Golden Goblet" by Eloise Jarvis McGraw

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

We also had enough unnecessaries to bring us to grief in a couple of weeks.

From Tracks of a Rolling Stone by Henry J. (Henry John) Coke

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

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




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