The word is often superfluous and sometimes slightly annoying.
In the virally gossipy world of blogs, a press release is often superfluous.
The work of sideline and stadium reporters is often superfluous — discussing the obvious, offering little the announcers don't, conducting ignorant interviews that bespeak their inattention to the game.
There is no worse feeling than texting a friend to ask, "How was your day?" only to get a reply of "gr8, urs?" or ":D !!!" Also, excessive use of smiley faces or expressive symbols is often superfluous to the message itself.
Mixing foundation money with their own to go beyond the standard curriculum, the schools are teaching the nuts and bolts of running a business, setting up client referral networks for fledgling practitioners and holding seminars to tackle the mundane challenges of going it alone that are often considered superfluous to the study of law.
And in today's economic climate, it is more important than ever for businesses to ensure they are gaining the most value out of their current IT assets rather than reactively deploying new services, which are often proven superfluous following an IT assessment.
Every now and then in New York City, you will come across a thing so perfectly useless it reminds you of an old idea you managed to forget: Superfluous things are often beautiful, and beautiful things are generally superfluous in the end.
In the low-key contexts of many of these movies, whether they are about young urbanite confusion (as in Andrew Bujalski's films) or hardscrabble lives (as in Ramin Bahrani's), narrative machinations are, often rightly, seen as superfluous or jarring, at odds with characters and social worlds that are portrayed in all their lifelike complexity.
Other mosquito abatement activities, such as aerial spraying, were often considered superfluous by interviewees.
Writers are often advised to dispose of their cherished but superfluous paragraphs – to "kill their darlings".
