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as in irrelevant
not being a vital part of or belonging to something
the architect's streamlined modern style shuns any sort of extraneous ornamentation
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2
as in immaterial
not having anything to do with the matter at hand
the professor would have covered all of the course material if she had refrained from her extraneous remarks on just about everything
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Recent Examples of extraneous
Porcelain War shows us how the vision of artists is never extraneous, least of all in wartime.
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Stephanie Zacharek, TIME, 2 Mar. 2025
And dissection of a batting order can be extraneous.
—Kevin Acee, San Diego Union-Tribune, 28 Feb. 2025
Weiser blames extraneous material added to the bill for its collapse and remains confident this slimmer package will pass muster.
—John Frank, Axios, 25 Feb. 2025
That law prevents the addition of extraneous provisions, according to Maria Freese, senior legislative representative at the National Committee to Preserve Social Security and Medicare.
—Lorie Konish, CNBC, 25 Feb. 2025
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Stephanie Zacharek, TIME, 2 Mar. 2025
And dissection of a batting order can be extraneous.
—Kevin Acee, San Diego Union-Tribune, 28 Feb. 2025
Weiser blames extraneous material added to the bill for its collapse and remains confident this slimmer package will pass muster.
—John Frank, Axios, 25 Feb. 2025
That law prevents the addition of extraneous provisions, according to Maria Freese, senior legislative representative at the National Committee to Preserve Social Security and Medicare.
—Lorie Konish, CNBC, 25 Feb. 2025
See All Example Sentences for extraneous
Recent Examples of Synonyms for extraneous
Adjective
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The weather’s getting warmer in Montreal, playoff weather, a time of year this group is used to looking for external, irrelevant sources of motivation to play out the string.—
Arpon Basu,
The Athletic,
16 Mar. 2025
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Too long to weed through red herrings and convolutions in the mystery that eventually border on irrelevant.—
Daniel Fienberg,
The Hollywood Reporter,
12 Mar. 2025
Adjective
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Brexit arrived at a moment when internal and external perceptions of the domestic Irish game were beginning to shift.—
Michael Walker,
The Athletic,
20 Mar. 2025
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Premium Resources Ltd Com acknowledges its dependence on external financing to continue its operations and advance its projects, noting the material uncertainties that cast doubt on its ability to continue as a going concern.—
Quartz Intelligence Newsroom,
Quartz,
20 Mar. 2025
Adjective
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And that is not something extrinsic, imposed by regulation or taxation, but inherent to the way the company conceives of itself, its ownership structure, its governance, its performance metrics, its finances — everything.—
IESE Business School,
Forbes,
25 Feb. 2025
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Those sensors detect the subtle vibrations that are transmitted to the extrinsic laryngeal muscles (in the neck) from other anatomical locations including the velum, oropharynx, tongue, and epiglottis.—
Ben Coxworth,
New Atlas,
21 Feb. 2025
Adjective
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The patchy and adventitious quality of Jameson’s reconstruction must make clear his difference as a thinker.—
Mark Greif,
Harper's Magazine,
26 July 2024
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The cut appears to have been high enough that the stump should still have enough adventitious buds to regrow.—
Jonathan Edwards,
Washington Post,
3 Oct. 2023
Adjective
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At issue was a high school administrator mistakenly typing the wrong class name on Richardson’s transcript, creating an accidental duplicate.—
Brendan Quinn,
New York Times,
26 Mar. 2025
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On Wednesday, People published the one-minute 18-second trailer for the 1880s period piece, which will release May 2. Baldwin, 67, stars as outlaw Harland Rust who finds himself on the run with his young grandson after the 13-year-old is sentenced to hang for an accidental killing.—
Jami Ganz,
New York Daily News,
26 Mar. 2025
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“Extraneous.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/extraneous. Accessed 3 Apr. 2025.
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