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extraneous

[ik-strey-nee-uhs] / ɪkˈstreɪ ni əs /




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That means perfectly coiffed hair, stark white interiors with pops of color and, despite the era’s prevalent greenery, no extraneous plants.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 5, 2026

"The LNF is an amazing facility," Gong said, adding it was a painstaking process to meld the device's materials together in a way that didn't introduce any extraneous electric fields.

From Science Daily Jul. 28, 2026

That they’re the only black principals brings something new to the story, and alliance, and something extraneous to the message of Hedda’s social suffocation and the motive for her misdeeds.

From The Wall Street Journal Oct. 28, 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

It was difficult to think of the ever-combative, highly combustible champion of the American Revolution as extraneous and invisible, but that is what the vice presidency had made him.

From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis




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