extraneous
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She might profitably have removed the scaffolding of the research, avoided extraneous detail and produced more of a page-turner.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 16, 2026
"He was just quietly sitting there, taking script pages out, cutting them up, removing extraneous stuff like scene descriptions, and then sticking them back onto blank pages," he said.
From BBC • Mar. 1, 2025
News organizations routinely edit interviews, removing extraneous words and redundant phrases.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 26, 2025
One could read this strange, extraneous sight as Perkins’ attempt to send up our macabre fixation with death, rubbernecking at gruesome sights we should want to turn away from.
From Salon • Feb. 21, 2025
The sleeping pill was an extraneous gesture; I didn’t need it, but the mere possibility of restlessness, of an afternoon full of bad dreams and distant plumbing noises, was too unpleasant to even contemplate.
From "The Secret History" by Donna Tartt
Vocabulary lists containing extraneous
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