needless

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"I've spoken to management there this morning and needless to say, this has been a huge shock and has rocked them," he told the ABC.

From BBC • Apr. 15, 2026

So the question is, how many needless penalty strokes do amateurs rack up that pros don’t, just because we have to find our own balls?

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 5, 2026

The White House said that the changes were “not driven by the desire to increase tariff revenue,” but to “better align incentives to what we are trying to accomplish while reducing needless complexity.”

From Barron's • Apr. 2, 2026

High government officials sang his praises, chanted their version of “one of us, one of us” and buried him in needless and irrelevant praise.

From Salon • Jan. 30, 2026

He pronounced it needless to send for a doctor: nature, he was sure, would manage best, left to herself.

From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë