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She has a tendency to get distracted by extraneous details.extraneous = not relevant or important to the matter under consideration
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The lawyer objected to the prosecutor's introduction of extraneous evidence.extraneous = irrelevant
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But to think of anything extraneous was an agonizing effort.† (source)
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"You have to realize, Mr. Gennaro," Arnold said, "that there's a lot of extraneous movement out there." (source)extraneous = not relevant or important to the matter under consideration
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Ender toyed with the idea of telling them how important this battle was to him, but decided it would not help them to have an extraneous concern on their minds. (source)extraneous = not relevant to the matter under consideration
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For six months, Ekman and his collaborator, Wallace Friesen, had been sorting through the footage, cutting extraneous scenes, focusing just on close-ups of the faces of the tribesmen in order to compare the facial expressions of the two groups. (source)extraneous = not relevant or important to the matter under consideration
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It was the extra exclamation point that got me. My mother would call it extraneous, overblown, exuberant. (source)extraneous = not relevant (unneeded)
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And whatever extraneous influence the tannery may have exercised, the calamities of the land belong to it alone, born of wind and rain and weather, immensities not to be tempered by man or his creations. (source)extraneous = unimportant to the matter under consideration
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It had crossed her thought like some unsought, extraneous impression. (source)extraneous = not relevant or important to the matter under consideration
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If each, I told myself, could but be housed in separate identities, life would be relieved of all that was unbearable; the unjust delivered from the aspirations might go his way, and remorse of his more upright twin; and the just could walk steadfastly and securely on his upward path, doing the good things in which he found his pleasure, and no longer exposed to disgrace and penitence by the hands of this extraneous evil. (source)extraneous = not belonging to that in which it is contained
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I can live alone, if self-respect, and circumstances require me so to do. I need not sell my soul to buy bliss. I have an inward treasure born with me, which can keep me alive if all extraneous delights should be withheld, or offered only at a price I cannot afford to give. (source)extraneous = less important or from outside
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Instead —quite unexpectedly — I'd been knocked reeling by the stress of navigating one of the most crowded stores in Manhattan on a Friday close to Christmas: elevators packed, stairwells packed, flowing with shoals of tourists, holiday shoppers jostling five and six deep at the display cases to buy watches and scarves and handbags and carriage clocks and etiquette books and all kinds of extraneous merchandise in Signature Robin's Egg Blue.† (source)extraneous = not relevant or important to the matter under consideration
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Plus, Lars has this bulge sticking out of his jacket, and I only just now figured out that it's a gun and not the stump of an extraneous third arm, which is what originally I thought.† (source)
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"We will be killing power in selected areas," Rocher was saying, "to eradicate extraneous magnetic interference.† (source)
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There was no extraneous conversation, no distraction.† (source)
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I need you, Eragon and Arya, to help the dwarves collapse extraneous tunnels.† (source)
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