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superfluity

[soo-per-floo-i-tee] / ˌsu pərˈflu ɪ ti /




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Thankfully, YA novelist Robin Wasserman’s 2016 adult debut, “Girls on Fire,” boasts a superfluity of violently intense female friendship to tide us over until Season 3.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 19, 2023

Morrison had a superfluity of gifts and, like few other writers of her era, bent language to her will.

From New York Times • Aug. 6, 2019

It is the rare as-told-to book, or one created in collaboration with an author-for-hire, that is well-written, but “A Piece of Light” is filled with a superfluity of penny-dreadful prose.

From Washington Post • Jul. 19, 2018

Partly, I think, because Miller treats his story line as Max would treat his car—stripping out superfluity and softness, in the interest of pure speed.

From The New Yorker • May 15, 2015

“My learned friend does not appear to have gained a great deal by his superfluity of interruption”, remarked the Solicitor-General suavely, and the Court laughed loudly.

From The Trial of Oscar Wilde From the Shorthand Reports by Anonymous




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