Between 2010 and 2012, BP conducted something of a garage sale of oil and gas fields that its leaders considered superfluous, pulling in about $38 billion, only a few billion dollars short of what it has estimated that it will pay out in Gulf spill damages.
Here is a "fact psychic" whose mind streams with superfluous data about everything he encounters: "Tastes a Hostess cupcake.
Congress asked the bank to produce e-mail and other documents relevant to those issues and what it got instead was superfluous communications about annual pecan sales and Lewis' "awesome" performance in a 60 Minutes interview last year.
Few souls are more in demand than geeks armed with superfluous knowledge about the undercard, right?
A crucial issue is whether these techniques provide complementary or superfluous information about the hippocampus.
And once everyone hears how masterfully Cameron cooked my veggieburger that would be the end to any sniping about superfluous geraniums and over-manicured lawns.
He was so worried about looking superfluous that he'd leave the West Wing with a handful of papers and walk the halls of the nearby Old Executive Office Building, shuffling through the papers as if attending to important business.
Mr. Barons said he and the exhibition's other curator, Frank Newbold, chairman of the society's collection committee, decided it would be superfluous to include texts about how hard kitchen work was in those days.
Non-applicable extracts consisted of superfluous, tangentially related commentary about teaching or personal experiences.
The claim is then that the existence of such a non-moral geneaology of moral beliefs makes the notion of moral truths "explanatorily superfluous"—just as truths about witches are explanatorily superfluous given a complete genealogy of beliefs about witches that does not involve any appeal to truths about witches.
