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unnecessarily

adverb as in needlessly

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While authorities have claimed that Valdez tried to grab the officer’s gun and taser, his family alleges police unnecessarily escalated the confrontation, then misled them about the killing.

In his order, the president argued that “heavy-handed federal policies” from previous administrations have made the U.S. unnecessarily reliant on foreign timber producers.

A third expert, education consultant Elizabeth Swan, said the use of force was "unreasonable, excessive and unnecessarily prolonged".

From BBC

Chancellor Rachel Reeves said the pilot would ensure the hospitality industry had "the conditions to grow" and was not "tied down by unnecessarily burdensome red tape".

From BBC

But over the years, Lee worried his investigations were becoming unnecessarily aggressive.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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