extraneous

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When we deal with these extraneous things, instead of providing optimal and sound clinical care, it transforms that idealistic vision we had as young doctors into a dark and unpleasant one.

From Scientific American

He spent that December day at a firehouse in Newtown, feeling “powerless, extraneous, impotent” as he watched hundreds of frantic parents search for their children.

From Washington Post

Its extraneous devices, including a multipurpose Greek chorus, have been stripped away, allowing its strongest elements — Strathairn and his moving narration — to tell the harrowing story.

From Washington Post

It’s slow, and frustrating and sometimes, at least in Ace Attorney, the game will make you take even more extraneous steps to arrive at an answer you’ve already figured out.

From The Verge

Dror says the best approach to fighting bias is to shield experts from extraneous information, similar to the “blinding” in scientific experiments.

From Science Magazine