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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
  • Meanwhile, the too-young Thunder are too-young no longer, an NBA champion with a surplus of draft capital still to burn.
    Sean Keeler, Denver Post, 23 June 2025
  • Speaking on Monday at Bloomberg’s Future of Finance in Ireland event in Dublin, Donohoe said that the government must use that surplus with an eye on the longer term.
    Emma Burleigh, Fortune, 23 June 2025
Noun
  • The lavish display of money and excess has provoked backlash from local residents and environmental demonstrators who protest the use of the Unesco world heritage site as a playground for the super-rich.
    Karen Gilchrist, CNBC, 27 June 2025
  • An excess of Helena, which no one, least of all me, wanted.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 26 June 2025

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“Surplusage.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/surplusage. Accessed 5 Jul. 2025.

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