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.
• 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
• In their case the credit is redundant and should not be given.
  — Robert Verbruggen, National Review, 19 Dec. 2019
• But even apps that are not redundant can also be risky.
  — Ritish Puttaparthi, Forbes, 17 May 2022
• 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
• That’s in case the redundant computers that control the machine should fail at the same time.
  — Robert Mark, Robb Report, 5 Aug. 2021
• 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
• The world is full of delights that might appear on paper to be redundant but aren’t.
  — Jeremy Repanich, Robb Report, 1 July 2023
• 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
• 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
• 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
• No one had ever been made quite as redundant as Win was.
  — Deborah Orr, The New York Review of Books, 7 Feb. 2020
• Of course, limiting the perks to just paying users is redundant.
  — Ananya Bhattacharya, Quartz, 22 June 2022
• This is the organism’s source code, durable and redundant.
  — Christof Koch, Scientific American, 6 Oct. 2021
• 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
• Yet these arguments are redundant, when all is said and done.
  — Gilead Sher, Time, 16 Sep. 2019
• The skills sets of Poeltl and Eubanks are somewhat redundant.
  — Jeff McDonald, San Antonio Express-News, 16 Apr. 2021
• Passover in a pandemic year feels a bit, well, redundant.
  — Allison Hope, CNN, 27 Mar. 2021
• In the original, there was a lot of backstory, and some things that felt redundant.
  — James Hebert, sandiegouniontribune.com, 22 Mar. 2018
• But there is no excuse for lack of workable redundant power source.
  — Benjy Egel, sacbee, 18 Dec. 2017
• Members whose jobs prove redundant or who fall on hard times can rely on the kibbutz for an allowance.
  — Rory Jones, WSJ, 13 Oct. 2017
• A codon that specifies the same thing as another codon is redundant.
  — Bradley J. Fikes, sandiegouniontribune.com, 12 June 2017
• Get your smartphone to work faster, clean up your browser and delete redundant images.
  — Kim Komando, USA TODAY, 6 Apr. 2018
• Three kinds of sugar in one recipe may seem redundant, but each of these sugars has a specialty.
  — Ali Bouzari, SFChronicle.com, 27 Sep. 2019
• The walleye fishing forecast has been pretty redundant, and that’s a good thing.
  — D'arcy Egan, cleveland, 15 July 2021
• Ding ding!—there were four redundant phrases in that sentence.
  — Andy Kessler, WSJ, 11 Oct. 2020
• On the other, older workers are deemed out-of-touch and are being made redundant.
  — Sheila Callaham, Forbes, 24 Oct. 2021

Last Updated: 27 Mar 2024