superfluous
Example Sentences
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Once again, artificial intelligence was at the center of the selloff, amid worries that software would be made superfluous by Anthropic’s Claude applications.
From Barron's • Feb. 7, 2026
Italians mastered how to create a food culture built around comfort and family without being superfluous.
From Salon • Jan. 24, 2026
“Everything in the cabin, whether or not it made it into the final movie, was used and touched. There was nothing superfluous, really.”
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 15, 2025
That final scene seems superfluous, but as for the rest of the movie: Its audacious energy is more apparent than ever.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 4, 2025
Thus, many items had become superfluous, and these were not really things one could sell or things people wanted to throw out.
From "The Metamorphosis" by Franz Kafka
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