superfluousness

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for superfluousness
Noun
  • Here is the reality of the Hogan surplus and the handoff to the Moore administration: Hogan left Moore $2.5 billion in the rainy day fund.
    Kevin Igoe, Baltimore Sun, 27 Jan. 2025
  • Los Angeles would have to clear a 40-man spot for Yates, which means the Dodgers could look to move from that relief surplus.
    Fabian Ardaya, The Athletic, 23 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • The cost of repairs is expected to be in the thousands, with Kos having to pay a $990 insurance excess until the other driver is identified by police.
    Barbara A. Perry, Newsweek, 28 Jan. 2025
  • Line an 8-inch square metal baking pan with parchment paper, allowing excess to hang over the edge.
    Ann Taylor Pittman, Southern Living, 27 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • The images aren’t only stripped of superfluities; they’re hermetically sealed off from anything that could impinge from offscreen ...
    Tim Lammers, Forbes, 25 Dec. 2024
  • The images aren’t only stripped of superfluities; they’re hermetically sealed off from anything that could impinge from offscreen, from the world at large.
    Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 23 Dec. 2024
Noun
  • Even the Obama administration had not engaged in this kind of prosecutorial overkill.
    The Editors, National Review, 28 Jan. 2025
  • Over 150 companies, including Siemens, Heineken, Renault and Airbus, expressed concerns about potential regulatory overkill.
    Ozan Ozerk, Forbes, 2 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • Toward the island’s center, explore mountainous terrain cloaked in tea plantations and a surfeit of Buddhist and Hindu temples.
    Paul Rubio, AFAR Media, 23 Dec. 2024
  • In the living room, on the lower floor, a contemporary Ashley Hicks chandelier illuminates a circa 1920 Japanese lacquered table and an array of plush seating in varied materials and colors—all surrounded by a surfeit of art and objects made across five centuries and nearly as many continents.
    David Foxley, Architectural Digest, 13 Dec. 2024
Noun
  • For more about the overdose deaths of the two women during a girls' night out in L.A., subscribe now to PEOPLE or pick up this week's issue, on newsstands Friday.
    KC Baker, People.com, 23 Jan. 2025
  • Silk Road was also linked to six overdose deaths around the world from drugs bought on the site.
    Raul A. Reyes, Newsweek, 23 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • Therefore, oversupply remains as much of an area of concern for SAF sellers as undersupply remains one for the buyers.
    Gaurav Sharma, Forbes, 19 Jan. 2025
  • There are projected to be more than 12 million new university graduates in 2025, a vast oversupply considering the country’s youth unemployment rate of 18.8 percent.
    Peidong Sun, Foreign Affairs, 25 Dec. 2024
Noun
  • Fluidity of tissues, movements, amplitude, lightness, comfort.
    Rhonda Richford, WWD, 27 Jan. 2025
  • Its volume gives the amplitude for that interaction to occur.
    Charlie Wood, WIRED, 3 Nov. 2024
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“Superfluousness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/superfluousness. Accessed 10 Feb. 2025.

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