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is extraneous
adjective
Not belonging to, or dependent upon, a thing; without or beyond a thing; foreign
Exact(48)
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.
"If you believe in the confession, Sollecito is extraneous to the facts," Bongiorno told the Guardian.
A pitcher is defined, he writes, "by the way the ball leaves his hand". Everything else is extraneous.
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Slushy details are extraneous.
"Those would be extraneous details".
"It's extraneous to the matter at hand".
I seemed, as a woman, to be extraneous.
"They were extraneous parts in the machine that was society".
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