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inessential

[in-i-sen-shuhl] / ˌɪn ɪˈsɛn ʃəl /


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Won’t someone, even an inessential young reporter played by Myha’la, poke into the alleged scam?

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 8, 2026

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

Norah has often told me that I exaggerated the importance of the Nougat Incident; that my weakness is a tendency to dwell with a morbid concentration on small, inessential details.

From The Belfry by May Sinclair




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