Sentence examples for superfluous point from inspiring English sources

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Yes, we all accept that there was no mention of a letter but I actually think that that is a superfluous point.

I don't know why one cannot OBJECT to a law just because it's a law, and the fact that this military policy is underpinned by legislation seems like a superfluous point.

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The next year, Paul Shope considered the genus Polyozellus to be superfluous, pointed out that the compound fruit bodies and the wrinkled hymenium were instead consistent with the genus Craterellus.

But it is the old version of the famously flat laptop, and although it may seem superfluous to point this out, I feel I should warn our readers that to take advantage of this deal is to buy yourself some grief.

And the Village Voice's Stephanie Zacharek says Verbinski has overloaded the film with "dozens of superfluous plot points, action sequences so cluttered they obscure whatever genius may lurk within, heaps of heavy-duty symbolism that ultimately mean nothing, and juvenile gags that appear to have been written by 10-year-olds rather than for them".

For the better part of a decade, the accuracy rate for extra points has hovered around 99 percent, making the kick itself seem equal parts automatic and superfluous.

Why not explain that telephonic devices use the miracle of sound traveling across wires to allow people to have conversations with other people who are as far away as Kansas!? Though at the beginning it seemed in danger of being mired in questions of blogger ethics (which, honestly, seems a little superfluous at this point.

It was superfluous to our main point and, as the reviewer points out, our data do not significantly enhance our understanding of this state.

Then the Colts tacked on a final insult — a field goal that at that point seemed superfluous.

Nick Paumgarten, in his article on the video-game designer Shigeru Miyamoto, claims that "games, regardless of how much we may love them, are by definition trivial and superfluous," thus missing the point of humanity's fascination with these kinds of play ("Master of Play," December 20th & 27th).

Robert L. Strauss Antananarivo, Madagascar Nick Paumgarten, in his article on the video-game designer Shigeru Miyamoto, claims that "games, regardless of how much we may love them, are by definition trivial and superfluous," thus missing the point of humanity's fascination with these kinds of play ("Master of Play," December 20th & 27th).

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