superfluous
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“It would be superfluous in me,” Abraham Lincoln’s emissary Charles Francis Adams wrote to the British foreign secretary, “to point out to your lordship that this is war.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 13, 2026
It’s the making of a perfect joke: totally superfluous and uniquely dumb.
From Salon ● Jul. 12, 2026
Building another in an area close to the big Chinese military bases on Hainan seems superfluous.
From BBC ● Jun. 3, 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
She discovered she had an excellent memory for important information and a knack for separating the essential from the superfluous.
From "The Best of Enemies" by Osha Gray Davidson
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