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superfluous

[soo-pur-floo-uhs] / sʊˈpɜr flu əs /


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Even copies of years-old news articles are marred with superfluous redactions.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 4, 2026

Once again, artificial intelligence was at the center of the selloff, amid worries that software would be made superfluous by Anthropic’s Claude applications.

From Barron's • Feb. 7, 2026

“Everything in the cabin, whether or not it made it into the final movie, was used and touched. There was nothing superfluous, really.”

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 15, 2025

Maybe a few of the how-to asides are superfluous; I really didn’t need a lesson on how to gift wrap books.

From Salon • Aug. 27, 2025

The cosmetics that had seemed superfluous were necessary now, not to improve her but to define her somehow.

From "Interpreter of Maladies" by Jhumpa Lahiri




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