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unnecessary

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


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This could reduce unnecessary follow-up observations while increasing the chances of detecting rare jet-launching episodes at crucial moments.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 16, 2026

The Greek government said it had "never" been threatened or pressured, and the foreign ministry said it was "unnecessary" to summon Guilfoyle on the issue.

From Barron's ● Oct. 14, 2026

So I took them there and was totally unnecessary, except when it came time to pay the bill.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 9, 2026

Guilfoyle’s attorney, Binnall, said: “Ambassador Guilfoyle will never apologize for offering to help shed light on a case in which 1,000 children underwent unnecessary, invasive, and debilitating surgeries at that man’s hands.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 7, 2026

Him saying what he did about cutting anybody out of his will who tried to interfere was entirely unnecessary.

From "Cold Sassy Tree" by Olive Ann Burns

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

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

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


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