Sentence examples for has become superfluous from inspiring English sources

Sanchez, signed as a stopgap for shortstop José Reyes, has become superfluous since Reyes's promotion and Alomar's departure.

Vine has become superfluous, and Pachter was not surprised to learn that Twitter plans to shut it down in the months to come.

With England likely to revert to the four-man pace attack – a strategy that helped them regain the Ashes – Rashid has become superfluous.

Aside from offering test drives, the dealer has become superfluous — a home for unwanted inventory, high-priced mechanics, and pushy salespeople, all of which add an unnecessary layer of cost.

The land was sold as part of the state's effort to divest itself of property attached to mental hospitals that has become superfluous as the number of people being treated in the hospitals has declined drastically.

For many users, the idea of carrying around a devoted camera — even one with a relatively unique form factor — has become superfluous.

Judges, in other words, have been given enormous power to bully and cajole defendants, and for most defendants trials have become superfluous.

In a Comment from July 4 , 1959 A. J. Liebling lamented how "the dodges for coping with the heat that New Yorkers learned in three centuries of summer have become superfluous, and in some cases hazardous.

Editors argue that, as newspapers have grown so populist, diaries have become superfluous: if we stick all the gossip in the diary, how will we fill the news pages?

In 2008, community activists struggled to be heard as the noise from the presidential race convinced voters that the fate of our nation lay in a battle between two juggernauts, and that non-partisan organizing, once the back-bone of our democracy, had become superfluous.

It is possible that, with such a narrow set of substrate proteins, some nonessential components of the assembly pathway have become superfluous.