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The Housing Action Coalition, a nonprofit that advocates for building more housing in California, called the proposed increase is a small and meaningful step toward deterring unnecessary delays.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 10, 2026

We fought wars that seemed unnecessary, overlong, or both.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 7, 2026

Rather than operating as separate responses, these processes appear to work together to help the body recognize danger while limiting unnecessary harm to healthy cells.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 5, 2026

If the National Party wins enough seats to govern, Luxon's second term will focus on growing international trade while continuing to cut back on what the coalition deem unnecessary costs in government.

From Barron's ● Nov. 4, 2026

Ophie registered the change in Richard’s demeanor immediately, and she bobbed a curtsy even though Richard had said it was unnecessary.

From "Ophie's Ghosts" by Justina Ireland

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

On Thursday, August 5th, the Regiment sorrowfully packed up all unnecessaries and piled them in the regimental dump.

From The Tale of a Trooper by Clutha N. (Clutha Nantes) Mackenzie

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