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inessential

[in-i-sen-shuhl] / ˌɪn ɪˈsɛn ʃəl /


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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

Though the song’s title starts as a negative, describing Ken as inessential, the group elevates it to a chant of self-affirming validation, one that stops them from warring with each other and themselves.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 28, 2023

In admitting this, we seem to involve the supposition that mountain influence is either unfavorable or inessential to literary power; but for this also the mountain influence 3rd.

From Modern Painters, Volume IV (of V) by John Ruskin




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