superfluously
Americanadverb
Example Sentences
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I’ve noticed some inserting the word “right” superfluously into conversation.
From New York Times • May 25, 2024
But these fanciful flourishes never read superfluously, instead reaffirming Rohrwacher’s comfortable straddling of the real and the fantastical.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 29, 2024
Evans would have drawn an assist had Kailer Yamamoto not superfluously tapped the puck over the line when it was already headed into the net.
From Seattle Times • Oct. 3, 2023
So cataloging them is only superfluously helpful in figuring out how to improve MT, says Félix Do Carmo, a senior lecturer at the Centre for Translation Studies at the University of Surrey.
From Slate • Sep. 21, 2022
I am lank, lean, and spare; she short and thick: in a family notorious for fulness, she is considered superfluously fat.”
From The Martyrs of Science, or, The lives of Galileo, Tycho Brahe, and Kepler by Brewster, David, Sir
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