unnecessary
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Reducing unnecessary antibiotic use is therefore an important public health goal.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 30, 2026
A trade battle over about 5% of Canada’s exports to the U.S. is unnecessary right now.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 2026
Even with an unnecessary roughness penalty in the fourth, Shelley made his reps count, making five tackles and breaking up a deep pass from Rams quarterback Ty Simpson intended for Tyler Scott.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 28, 2026
"Pairing a bralette outfit with a sacred occasion like Rakshabandhan felt completely out of touch and unnecessary," she posted on X.
From BBC ● Aug. 26, 2026
Babou’s unnecessary and humiliating lesson in how to dam tea had one benefit: I now knew where Mamou kept her tea and hel.
From "Darius the Great Is Not Okay" by Adib Khorram
There are some great songs on it, but they're smothered in unnecessaries that made it really cloudy.
From The Guardian ● May 23, 2013
She has the air of somebody who has reached a point in her life where she is dispensing with the unnecessaries.
From Time Magazine Archive
I say, pater, do come up while I toss a few unnecessaries into my case.—That's right, Brown; put my bag in my room.
From The Parts Men Play by Arthur Beverley Baxter
No mission chest piously outfitted at home ever carried to the remote heathen a more useless assortment of unnecessaries than this one brought to me.
From The Portal of Dreams by Charles Neville Buck
Boroskie, thou art a Knave; it contains nothing But rubbish from the other rooms and unnecessaries: Will't please you see a strange Clock?
From Beaumont & Fletcher's Works (3 of 10): The Loyal Subject by Francis Beaumont
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