extraneous

That some narrative moves are obvious, some unconvincing and some just extraneous does not get in the way of a good time.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026

It’s a great example of the more impressionistic lyrics on this record; they’re still telling the same kind of stories but with more compression, more editing, retaining what’s essential and rejecting anything extraneous.

From Salon ● Aug. 25, 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

Ms. Fanning is important in playing Marissa’s sympathetic friend and partner in guilt; in her job as a book marketer, she has something of an extraneous subplot to pursue.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 5, 2025

And whatever extraneous influence the tannery may have exercised, the calamities of the land belong to it alone, born of wind and rain and weather, immensities not to be tempered by man or his creations.

From "Nectar in a Sieve" by Kamala Markandaya