superfluous

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At the time, a Homeland Security spokesperson said the judge’s order was “unnecessary and superfluous given DHS’s medical policy goes above and beyond.”

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 6, 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

The recordings were just as funny and weird and interesting as I remembered them; they didn’t seem dated, they didn’t seem superfluous, they weren’t something I was going to grow out of.

From Salon • Dec. 23, 2025

That final scene seems superfluous, but as for the rest of the movie: Its audacious energy is more apparent than ever.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 4, 2025

For example, did Africa’s abundance of big wild mammals, available to kill by hunting, make it superfluous for Africans to go to the trouble of tending domestic stock?

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond