surplusage
Example Sentences
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In discussing the 14th Amendment, Mr. Barnett fairly shows that the phrase “subject to the jurisdiction thereof” isn’t empty surplusage.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 3, 2026
Some of that surplusage is sold by private surplus retailers.
From Seattle Times ● May 19, 2024
But “our preference for avoiding surplusage constructions is not absolute.”
From MSNBC ● Jun. 25, 2015
In general, the surplusage and consequent confusion of our great . . . art museums is a matter of daily and just comment.
From Time Magazine Archive
By the former is meant the inner movement of mind or spirit, which must be of such depth and force as to leave a surplusage after the material needs of existence have been met.
From A Popular History of the Art of Music From the Earliest Times Until the Present by W. S. B. (William Smythe Babcock) Mathews
