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In this city, owning a car is unnecessary.
Let's not take any unnecessary risks.
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Those provisions are essential, the bill’s authors write due to large amounts of unintentional or unnecessary neural data likely collected through neurotechnology services.
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Mack Degeurin, Popular Science, 18 Apr. 2024
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Mack Degeurin, Popular Science, 18 Apr. 2024
Is the child receiving unnecessary and harmful or potentially harmful medical care?
—Sarah Klein, TIME, 18 Apr. 2024
See all Example Sentences for unnecessary
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“Unnecessary.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/unnecessary. Accessed 4 May. 2024.
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unnecessary
adjective
un·nec·es·sary
ˌən-ˈnes-ə-ˌser-ē 
ˈən-
: not necessary
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