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District Court for the Southern District of New York, accuses the university of failing to protect pro-Palestinian students from attacks by external groups and of subjecting those students to unnecessary scrutiny and discrimination on campus.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 14, 2026

One patient said she believed the drug had made her infertile, while another developed leukaemia after 100 unnecessary cycles.

From BBC ● Sep. 13, 2026

"Routinely using a calcium scan in people who are at low risk may result in unnecessary radiation exposure, testing and costs with unclear clinical benefits," Shah added.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 12, 2026

I’d love to hear any practical suggestions for structuring this so that it is easy for the restaurant, seamless for the staff and customers, and doesn’t create unnecessary headaches for anyone.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 11, 2026

He stayed there, exposed to the sun and the rain, as if the thongs were unnecessary, for a dominion superior to any visible bond kept him tied to the trunk of the chestnut tree.

From "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

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

Boroskie, thou art a Knave; it contains nothing But rubbish from the other rooms and unnecessaries: Will't please you see a strange Clock?

From Beaumont & Fletcher's Works (3 of 10): The Loyal Subject by Francis Beaumont

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

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