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redundant
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  • After the merger, they concluded the office was redundant.
    redundant = more than is needed or desired
  • The report identified redundant staff at the United Nations.
    redundant = more than are needed
  • They are using citation searches to minimize the problem of redundant publication.†
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  • Every member of the jury found the tenth character witness to be redundant and unnecessarily emotional.†
  • [decentralized decision-making] creates a form of redundancy, which works to the relative advantage of those individuals, groups, and firms that are most resistant to these irrational tendencies.†  (source)
  • At least the reviewer has a sense of humor when she described the art as clichéd, redundant and unimaginative.†
  • It was just as I was on the dash to school and Vati said, "Georgia, I don't know if you have heard anything but there's been a lot of redundancies at my place."†  (source)
  • "I'm going," she said, redundantly.  (source)
    redundantly = even though it wasn't necessary (It was already know that she was going.)
  • Bathsheba had too much sense to mind seriously what her servitors said about her; but too much womanly redundance of speech to leave alone what was said till it died the natural death of unminded things.†  (source)
  • It was one of those days in Central Park when there's a distilled sense of perception, a spareness, every line firm and unredundant, and the leaves were beginning to turn, the dogwoods and sumacs, and nothing was wasted or went unseen.†  (source)
    unredundant = not more than is needed
    standard prefix: The prefix "un-" in unredundant means not and reverses the meaning of redundant. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
  • "I'll make certain next time certainly," said Bourne, the redundancy intended,  (source)
    redundancy = repetition (more than is needed)
  • "Our liturgy," observed Crawford, "has beauties, which not even a careless, slovenly style of reading can destroy; but it has also redundancies and repetitions which require good reading not to be felt.†  (source)
  • This clergyman later described himself—redundantly it seemed—as an Episcopalian Bishop.†  (source)
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