superfluous
Example Sentences
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It’s the making of a perfect joke: totally superfluous and uniquely dumb.
From Salon ● Jul. 12, 2026
Bradshaw ended his review by saying it "feels like a superfluous piece of monetisable content".
From BBC ● Jul. 10, 2026
This guy is, by the way, completely superfluous to the plot, and wastes a lot of our time before he gets dumped out of it.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 10, 2026
At the time, a Homeland Security spokesperson said the judge’s order was “unnecessary and superfluous given DHS’s medical policy goes above and beyond.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 6, 2026
A superfluous major on his rolls meant an untidy table of organization and gave ammunition to the men at Twenty-seventh Air Force Headquarters who Colonel Cathcart was positive were his enemies and rivals.
From "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller
Vocabulary lists containing superfluous
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Grade 11, List 1
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