supernumerary
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Among the supernumerary features: 13 cupholders, seven USB-C ports, two 120V outlets, and three-zone climate control.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 4, 2025
The results showed that the participants who had received training on the supernumerary arm performed the tasks just as well as the participants who were working with a partner.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 27, 2023
Because that's what Japanese company Exii recently premiered with their Jizai Arms — a robotic arm bag, or "supernumerary robotic limb system" that enables humans to control six additional AI robotic limbs.
From Salon ● May 28, 2023
Discharged in seven months as a supernumerary, he lied again and joined the Navy, where he stayed for five years, serving as a radar operator until he was honorably discharged in 1964.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 10, 2021
It was this extra attention to detail, a supernumerary zeal to approach perfection that led him to spend part of each weekday morning at Hobie’s Grill.
From "The Great Santini" by Pat Conroy
Extraneous dancers and supernumeraries flood Phelim McDermott’s production at the Met.
From New York Times ● May 6, 2024
For “Children Will Listen,” led by Headley, with superb, sinuous phrasing, deBessonet suddenly swells the cast with 70 or so supernumeraries, children and seniors singing along.
From New York Times ● May 6, 2022
Our two boys were also supernumeraries, playing young sailors in the 2001 production of ‘Billy Budd.’
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 28, 2021
Broken into six-hour installments spaced out over two weeks, the hallucinatory concert extravaganza is being custom tailored, with local musicians, guest artists and glittery supernumeraries brought in for the occasion.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 14, 2018
The absurd custom of keeping from one to a dozen dogs, untrained for any valuable purpose, or supernumeraries even if capable of rendering occasional service, ought to be abandoned by every rational man.
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