Examples of unnecessary in a Sentence
In this city, owning a car is unnecessary.
Let's not take any unnecessary risks.
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Tyrel Dodson’s sack of Josh Allen led to an unnecessary roughness call.
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Miami Herald, 27 Sep. 2025
Tipsword warned the law exposes responders to unnecessary danger.
—Center Square, The Washington Examiner, 27 Sep. 2025
All of that takes work—the kind of work that AI dating promises, implicitly or explicitly, to render unnecessary.
—Faith Hill, The Atlantic, 27 Sep. 2025
But while cookware was included in the original draft, it was exempted from the final text after protests from cookware companies and their employees, who argued the ban would jeopardize jobs and was unnecessary on health grounds.
—Laura Paddison, CNN Money, 26 Sep. 2025
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Miami Herald, 27 Sep. 2025
Tipsword warned the law exposes responders to unnecessary danger.
—Center Square, The Washington Examiner, 27 Sep. 2025
All of that takes work—the kind of work that AI dating promises, implicitly or explicitly, to render unnecessary.
—Faith Hill, The Atlantic, 27 Sep. 2025
But while cookware was included in the original draft, it was exempted from the final text after protests from cookware companies and their employees, who argued the ban would jeopardize jobs and was unnecessary on health grounds.
—Laura Paddison, CNN Money, 26 Sep. 2025
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“Unnecessary.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/unnecessary. Accessed 30 Sep. 2025.
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unnecessary
adjective
un·nec·es·sary
ˌən-ˈnes-ə-ˌser-ē 
ˈən-
: not necessary
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