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In autophagy, damaged or unnecessary proteins are enclosed in small membrane-bound vesicles and then broken down safely by enzymes, effectively recycling cellular components.

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But don’t use the existence of such deals to justify an unnecessary purchase.

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Setting aside this money, she said, “prevents unnecessary credit-card usage and financial guilt.”

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“We’re delighted by Google’s success,” the company said in a totally unnecessary statement.

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The difficulty was scale: thousands of phosphine ligands exist, and experimentally screening them for an unfamiliar reaction would be slow, labor-intensive, and generate unnecessary chemical waste.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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