extraneously

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However, the extraneously large number of DuPont employees unintentionally induces an inflated impression of the odds.

From Slate • May 30, 2016

The names "Rockefeller" and "Mellon" occurred forcibly but somewhat extraneously, in Mr. Lewis' speech.

From Time Magazine Archive

Either it may have to determine the conception of the object—which must be supplied extraneously, or it may have to establish its reality.

From The Critique of Pure Reason by Meiklejohn, John Miller Dow

To his mind the word rompers connotated a garment extraneously smeared, as this one.

From Tales of the Jazz Age by Fitzgerald, F. Scott (Francis Scott)

Since then his production has been prodigious in view of its originality, of its lack of the powerful momentum extraneously supplied to the productive force that follows convention and keeps in the beaten track.

From French Art Classic and Contemporary Painting and Sculpture by Brownell, W. C. (William Crary)