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needless expenditures that pushed the construction project way over budget
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Even after the invasion, the Biden administration’s assistance to Ukraine was beset by hesitation, needless restrictions, and endless deliberation.
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Mitch McConnell, Foreign Affairs, 16 Dec. 2024
Narendra Modi has picked a needless fight with the United States and Canada.
—Daniel Block, The Atlantic, 30 Nov. 2024
Most of my peers think the feature, which controls which vents are open and where they’re aimed from the touch screen, is a needless complication, offering no benefit versus manual adjsutments.
—Mark Phelan, Detroit Free Press, 30 Nov. 2024
Denial itself, needless to say, can be a driving force, and the frowning shrinks might point to the roiling energies of an Auerbach painting, and to his obsessive habit of scraping away the remains of a day’s brushwork and beginning afresh on the morrow.
—Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 21 Nov. 2024
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Mitch McConnell, Foreign Affairs, 16 Dec. 2024
Narendra Modi has picked a needless fight with the United States and Canada.
—Daniel Block, The Atlantic, 30 Nov. 2024
Most of my peers think the feature, which controls which vents are open and where they’re aimed from the touch screen, is a needless complication, offering no benefit versus manual adjsutments.
—Mark Phelan, Detroit Free Press, 30 Nov. 2024
Denial itself, needless to say, can be a driving force, and the frowning shrinks might point to the roiling energies of an Auerbach painting, and to his obsessive habit of scraping away the remains of a day’s brushwork and beginning afresh on the morrow.
—Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 21 Nov. 2024
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“Needless.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/needless. Accessed 31 Dec. 2024.
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