inessential

Example Sentences

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One episode in the middle of this season is just that, entirely meant to establish the titular hero as adjacent to another Marvel hero in the area – and otherwise inessential.

From Salon • Mar. 5, 2025

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

Even when we imagine a superhero with X-ray vision, we imagine somebody who sees through the inessential to the essential.

From New York Times • Aug. 2, 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