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Another former Royal Marine previously told the BBC it felt like someone had "potentially handed me an unnecessary death sentence".

From BBC ● Aug. 20, 2026

It’s frustrating and unnecessary; it’s also not about me.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 19, 2026

I’m kidding: Even under normal circumstances, giving private companies this much power is likely to incentivize inventing enemies to fight or drive unnecessary spending.

From Salon ● Aug. 17, 2026

Doing deep squats or lunges with poor form can put unnecessary strain on your knee joint.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 16, 2026

He had always meant to do something, and Amy’s advice was quite unnecessary.

From "Little Women" by Louisa May Alcott

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

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

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