inessential
Example Sentences
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Streaming series creator Jon Favreau shepherds his hit into an enjoyable if inessential summer popcorn movie loaded with the creatures you’re looking for.
From Los Angeles Times • May 21, 2026
The first “Rebel Moon,” released on Netflix in December, made audiences endure a gantlet of narrative groundwork that’s fairly inessential and recapped here.
From New York Times • Apr. 19, 2024
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
It sustains that high anticipatory mood to which life is but a preparation, and the bees buzzing round the honey-flowers seem poor things toiling for an inessential gain.
From Apologia Diffidentis by Dalton, O. M. (Ormonde Maddock)