Sentence examples for be duplicative from inspiring English sources
adjective
Of, related to, or being a duplicate
The channel will not be duplicative of the magazine, though there will be some crossover.
It says its board already analyzes incentive pay for executives, so the additional work being suggested would be duplicative.
"We don't believe that inspection office would be duplicative because it's supposed to replace the F.D.A. catfish inspections".
The White House said in a statement that a commission would be "duplicative and would cause a further diversion of essential personnel from their duties fighting the war".
During a hearing yesterday in Federal District Court in Manhattan, Judge Jed S. Rakoff questioned whether work by investment firms, including Lazard and the Goldman Sachs Group, might be duplicative.
Oregon also regulates storm-water runoff, Justice Kennedy added, and the federal agency "could reasonably have concluded that further federal regulation in this area would be duplicative or counterproductive".
This entailed finding programs that were duplicative, outdated and ineffective.
More stunning: 75 percent of the information is duplicative.
How can we make sure that, you know, we're consolidating programs that are duplicative?
The additional scrutiny from the C.F.T.C., the industry groups argued, was duplicative.
"Various memos that were duplicative or old or research materials I thought were no longer relevant," Mr. Duncan replied.
