How to Use redundant in a Sentence

redundant

adjective

• Some people say that since all adages are old, the phrase “old adage” is redundant.
• He edited the paper and removed any redundant information or statements.
• Avoid redundant expressions in your writing.
• By the time the U.S. could put such a passport process in place would be redundant.
  — Phillip Molnar, San Diego Union-Tribune, 5 Mar. 2021
• Most if not all of these switches are redundant with those in the touch-screen menus.
  — Dan Neil, WSJ, 17 Mar. 2022
• The office isn’t the only place that may soon be redundant.
  — NBC News, 31 May 2017
• With a near five-hour run time, there are bits of jeen-yuhs that are redundant and long-winded.
  — Aramide Tinubu, Essence, 25 Jan. 2022
• That’s in case the redundant computers that control the machine should fail at the same time.
  — Robert Mark, Robb Report, 5 Aug. 2021
• The skills sets of Poeltl and Eubanks are somewhat redundant.
  — Jeff McDonald, San Antonio Express-News, 16 Apr. 2021
• In their case the credit is redundant and should not be given.
  — Robert Verbruggen, National Review, 19 Dec. 2019
• By such standards, the function of a place like Treehouse in a city like L.A. ought to be redundant.
  — Nathan Heller, The New Yorker, 28 June 2021
• Scary stories about the future are redundant when the task of dealing with the present is so urgent.
  — Fintan O’Toole, The Atlantic, 16 Dec. 2021
• So many things are bound to be redundant, like the look of bobsled after bobsled hurtling down the same track.
  — Phil Rosenthal, chicagotribune.com, 26 Feb. 2018
• The world is full of delights that might appear on paper to be redundant but aren’t.
  — Jeremy Repanich, Robb Report, 1 July 2023
• To describe a rapper as a lover of things like wordplay and turn-of-phrase might be redundant.
  — Chris Varias, Cincinnati.com, 11 Nov. 2019
• The two servers were redundant, so if one melted down the other would work as a backup.
  — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 9 July 2021
• But even apps that are not redundant can also be risky.
  — Ritish Puttaparthi, Forbes, 17 May 2022
• No one had ever been made quite as redundant as Win was.
  — Deborah Orr, The New York Review of Books, 7 Feb. 2020
• But, yeah, the day-to-day grind does get pretty redundant (after) doing it for a long time.
  — Eric Branch, San Francisco Chronicle, 31 Jan. 2023
• This is the organism’s source code, durable and redundant.
  — Christof Koch, Scientific American, 6 Oct. 2021
• Sardone says to start at the top of the room, such as dusting a ceiling fan, and work your way down to the floor to eliminate redundant work.
  — Brett Martin, Popular Mechanics, 29 Nov. 2022
• Zap anything redundant that’s taking up space on the cloud from that out-of-focus sunset to those dozens of videos of the same scene.
  — Juliet Kinsman, Condé Nast Traveler, 21 Apr. 2023
• While there are flashes of brilliance on the record, Vultures feels too redundant to be a great Kanye West record.
  — Carl Lamarre, Billboard, 21 Feb. 2024
• In the original, there was a lot of backstory, and some things that felt redundant.
  — James Hebert, sandiegouniontribune.com, 22 Mar. 2018
• Layers of redundant safety are built out and out and out from the reactor that powers the plant.
  — Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 2 Dec. 2020
• The questions can be boring and redundant (not, of course, those from Glamour).
  — Stephanie McNeal, Glamour, 16 Feb. 2024
• To tell you the truth, Scarlet Centurion is the most redundant of all the Kang variants.
  — Tribune News Service, cleveland, 24 July 2021
• Still, in one sense, OTF projects are redundant — but only because of Pack’s work.
  — Jimmy Quinn, National Review, 1 Oct. 2020
• Democrats and voting rights groups have argued that if ballots arrive on or before Election Day, putting the date on the envelope is unnecessary and redundant and the vote should be counted.
  — Brian Bennett, TIME, 5 Nov. 2024
• Cut corners, roll over your bank statements and relinquish redundant expenses.
  — Eugenia Last, The Mercury News, 18 Nov. 2024

Last Updated: 10 Dec 2024