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What is clarifying for one reader can be a redundant distraction for another.redundant = more than is needed or desired
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The specification called for a redundant network infrastructure.redundant = secondary components designed to work if the primary components fail
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The company carries the same customer names and addresses in four different computer systems. Eliminating the redundant data will simplify mailing list management.redundant = unnecessarily repeated
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After the merger, they concluded the office was redundant.redundant = more than is needed or desired
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The report identified redundant staff at the United Nations.redundant = more than are needed
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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.†
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[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)
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At least the reviewer has a sense of humor when she described the art as clichéd, redundant and unimaginative.†
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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)
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"I'm going," she said, redundantly. (source)redundantly = even though it wasn't necessary (It was already know that she was going.)
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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)
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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 neededstandard 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.
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"I'll make certain next time certainly," said Bourne, the redundancy intended, (source)redundancy = repetition (more than is needed)
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"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)
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This clergyman later described himself—redundantly it seemed—as an Episcopalian Bishop.† (source)
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