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The phrase "he is extraneous" is grammatically correct and can be used in written English.
It means that the person being referred to is not needed or irrelevant in a particular situation. Example: The group of scientists were discussing their findings when one of them suddenly interjected, "But why is he here? He's extraneous to our research."
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Bond scholars Smith and Lavington consider Leiter to offer negligible help to Bond, largely because there is no role for him in the novel, a point with which continuation Bond author Raymond Benson agrees, noting that he is "extraneous to the dramatic action".
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It's a marvellous scene, and fabulously awkward, though it is entirely extraneous.
A pitcher is defined, he writes, "by the way the ball leaves his hand". Everything else is extraneous.
He annexed sources from other arts & quasi-theatrical forms and sought to purge the theatre of what is extraneous or easy.
The effort is extraneous.
Nothing is designed to look pretty, and nothing is extraneous.
But Hipaa is extraneous not just legally but philosophically as well.
Thus, it simply means "racial mixing"; any negative connotation is extraneous to its etymology.
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Hess's mafia is instead the un-organised yet dominant subculture of Sicily to which no Sicilian is extraneous.
Provide only those details necessary for a reader to replicate the experiments presented in your study; anything more is extraneous.
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