inessential

Example Sentences

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The commentary was no less inessential with the addition of Jimmy Fallon, who also has a show on NBC.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 11, 2024

You might even define a great artist by the ability to pitilessly remove the inessential, no matter how clever the sentence or brilliant the movement composition.

From New York Times • Sep. 11, 2023

MAP, deemed inessential, was cut, and the program dissolved within a few years.

From Scientific American • Aug. 28, 2023

It urged residents in the area to avoid inessential outings and to use caution against mudslides, flooding and thunderstorms.

From Seattle Times • Aug. 14, 2023

Regard all that as inessential, and his inconsistencies and extravagances fall out of sight and leave the Great Heart alone visible.

From The Letters of William James, Vol. II by James, William