Superfluous

And how many roles are superfluous?

Congressman Warren Davidson has proposed cutting a program helping people with HIV find housing, arguing the program is superfluous.

However, these plots can also make the main cast members of (particularly the younger generation of stars) feel superfluous.

It forces you to pare your life back to the essentials, to strip the superfluous.

I understand that some of the reasons are superfluous, but it’s something this committee has really got to look at over the next three years to see if we’ve got an improvement.

My 60th birthday in August – cards superfluous (think of the planet); LinkedIn messages acceptable; Valpolicella and experience day vouchers gladly accepted.

The question of whose prediction turned out to be the most accurate is, in fact, superfluous.

There was barbecue sauce on the side, but that was superfluous in all ways.

And yet the work, if not superfluous, seems secondary right now to the quest for meaning.

But the debate that has taken place is superfluous.

Ordinary Californians reject the premise that all state spending is “essential” and, in fact, think much of it is superfluous and wasteful.

Simplicity is a key part of Keep's appeal — because the reality is that most folks don't need a complex, multilayered note-taking tool with oodles of superfluous features.

When reading the short story before pressing play, I also found myself rushing through it with a similar staccato beat, each line brief and to the point to tell us everything we need to know without wasting time with superfluous detail.

Who can tell, then, that an ardent love letter from an “admirer”, containing such Romeo-type encomiums as “superfluous beauty” has not been cribbed from Mr W. Shakespeare’s work, by AI?

He said the people of the state are impressed by the efforts of the agency thus far and welcome the decluttering of streets of superfluous Signage and billboards, many of which are also constituting safety hazards to road users.

I felt this was superfluous, since the oath of allegiance surely implies all of the above, but it was inoffensive.

Indeed, there is good reason to believe that if we didn’t forget we would live in a perpetual state of confusion, our brains awash with confusing superfluous information.

Initially, Bernard comes across as a superfluous obstacle for Dolores, until a development with his identity teases an internal Jekyll and Hyde tug-of-war.

Irrespective of your views on hate crime legislation, though … are we seriously supposed to believe the passage of a duplicative, superfluous “hate crime” bill at the state level is really the top priority of Palmetto State businesses?

Not an ounce of superfluous flesh quivered along its thighs or flanks.