superfluous
Example Sentences
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Total domination attacked this fragile construction at its root, making human beings superfluous and sweeping them into an ideological process whose terrible boast was, in her phrase, “everything is possible.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 7, 2026
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
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
This was said with a careless, abstracted indifference, which showed that my solicitude was, at least in his opinion, wholly superfluous.
From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë
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Grade 11, List 1
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