extraneous

Example Sentences

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And a solo for limber Yuniel Betancourt that is meant to serve as punctuation feels more extraneous than conclusive.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 17, 2025

"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

No note was extraneous or wasted—and he understood more than most the mutually beneficial relationship between sound and vision.

From Salon • Jan. 29, 2025

Vitrines holding wildly different white or black objects make no sense, because whatever might be the specific visual point of the art objects is extraneous.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 22, 2024

“And what good are you? A sharpshooter without his guns. You’re completely extraneous to this mission.”

From "Six of Crows" by Leigh Bardugo