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.
  • 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
  • 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
  • With a near five-hour run time, there are bits of jeen-yuhs that are redundant and long-winded.
    Aramide Tinubu, Essence, 25 Jan. 2022
  • That’s in case the redundant computers that control the machine should fail at the same time.
    Robert Mark, Robb Report, 5 Aug. 2021
  • The skills sets of Poeltl and Eubanks are somewhat redundant.
    Jeff McDonald, San Antonio Express-News, 16 Apr. 2021
  • In their case the credit is redundant and should not be given.
    Robert Verbruggen, National Review, 19 Dec. 2019
  • 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
  • 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
  • The world is full of delights that might appear on paper to be redundant but aren’t.
    Jeremy Repanich, Robb Report, 1 July 2023
  • 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
  • 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
  • But even apps that are not redundant can also be risky.
    Ritish Puttaparthi, Forbes, 17 May 2022
  • No one had ever been made quite as redundant as Win was.
    Deborah Orr, The New York Review of Books, 7 Feb. 2020
  • But, yeah, the day-to-day grind does get pretty redundant (after) doing it for a long time.
    Eric Branch, San Francisco Chronicle, 31 Jan. 2023
  • This is the organism’s source code, durable and redundant.
    Christof Koch, Scientific American, 6 Oct. 2021
  • Sardone says to start at the top of the room, such as dusting a ceiling fan, and work your way down to the floor to eliminate redundant work.
    Brett Martin, Popular Mechanics, 29 Nov. 2022
  • While there are flashes of brilliance on the record, Vultures feels too redundant to be a great Kanye West record.
    Carl Lamarre, Billboard, 21 Feb. 2024
  • In the original, there was a lot of backstory, and some things that felt redundant.
    James Hebert, sandiegouniontribune.com, 22 Mar. 2018
  • 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
  • Of course, limiting the perks to just paying users is redundant.
    Ananya Bhattacharya, Quartz, 22 June 2022
  • Two hours of the Lumineers goes a long way, and their set of three-chord catharsis started to feel redundant by the night’s end.
    David Brusie, BostonGlobe.com, 28 May 2023
  • Passover in a pandemic year feels a bit, well, redundant.
    Allison Hope, CNN, 27 Mar. 2021
  • That’s something Jackson says on camera more than once over the course of this drab and redundant docuseries.
    Washington Post, 31 Jan. 2022
  • On the other, older workers are deemed out-of-touch and are being made redundant.
    Sheila Callaham, Forbes, 24 Oct. 2021
  • Yet these arguments are redundant, when all is said and done.
    Gilead Sher, Time, 16 Sep. 2019
  • No, not fried Buffalo wings, which would be kind of redundant.
    Robert Philpot, star-telegram, 20 Mar. 2018

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