inessential

Example Sentences

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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

Matthew Jacobs called the show "inessential" in his review for TV Guide, while Brian Lowry of CNN described it as "a disappointment" though its "stars still merit a look."

From Salon • Apr. 16, 2023

We must speak here, however, since our space is limited, not of these sporadic and inessential excellences, but of the isolated and admirable accidents—for so they seem—which make Mr. Belloc truly a poet.

From Hilaire Belloc The Man and His Work by Chesterton, G. K. (Gilbert Keith)