Definition of surplusagenext

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Recent Examples of surplusage In everyday speech, in legal texts and even in translations of Genesis, one person’s surplusage may be another person’s way of dealing with inevitable trade-offs between clarity and concision. Sam Bray, Washington Post, 25 June 2017
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Noun
  • Fulton argued the proposition effectively would limit clinics from accumulating surpluses and reserves.
    Ben Paviour, Sacbee.com, 17 Sep. 2026
  • Companies and families worldwide have surpluses of goods or high-quality items for resale in secondary markets.
    Wayne Elsey, Forbes.com, 16 Sep. 2026
Noun
  • The whole thing was essentially an American Cadillac crossed with an Italian coachbuilt exotic, at a time when Detroit was already going completely bonkers with automotive excess.
    New Atlas, New Atlas, 10 Sep. 2026
  • Ancient critics could never quite agree on the direction of causality between Euripides’ formal excesses and the political decay of Athens around him — and Lichtenberg thinks that same ambiguity now surrounds AI.
    Aris Alexander, Fortune, 10 Sep. 2026

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“Surplusage.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/surplusage. Accessed 19 Sep. 2026.

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