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as in repetition
the use of too many words to express an idea
even though the phrase "free gift" is a redundancy, many retailers still use it to assure customers that an item is really free
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2
as in surplus
the state or an instance of going beyond what is usual, proper, or needed
there's a redundancy of high-priced restaurants in the area
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3
as in dismissal
chiefly British
the termination of the employment of an employee or a work force often temporarily
several dozen employees at the London office were lost to redundancy
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Recent Examples of redundancy
The law aims to reduce redundancy in the review process and support more efficient hiring.
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Alonzo Martinez, Forbes.com, 16 May 2025
Ratcliffe’s overseeing of two rounds of redundancies since his Old Trafford arrival in February 2024 has been undertaken with those figures in mind, though whether United can continue to operate as one of the world’s biggest clubs after 450 jobs were cut remains to be seen.
—Chris Weatherspoon, New York Times, 14 May 2025
The overhaul was billed as being about administrative redundancies.
—Brittney Melton, NPR, 14 May 2025
Kennedy described his downsizing of the sprawling $1.7 trillion-a-year agency — from 82,000 workers to 62,000 — as necessary cost-cutting measures that have reduced redundancies.
—Amanda Seitz, Chicago Tribune, 14 May 2025
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Alonzo Martinez, Forbes.com, 16 May 2025
Ratcliffe’s overseeing of two rounds of redundancies since his Old Trafford arrival in February 2024 has been undertaken with those figures in mind, though whether United can continue to operate as one of the world’s biggest clubs after 450 jobs were cut remains to be seen.
—Chris Weatherspoon, New York Times, 14 May 2025
The overhaul was billed as being about administrative redundancies.
—Brittney Melton, NPR, 14 May 2025
Kennedy described his downsizing of the sprawling $1.7 trillion-a-year agency — from 82,000 workers to 62,000 — as necessary cost-cutting measures that have reduced redundancies.
—Amanda Seitz, Chicago Tribune, 14 May 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for redundancy
Noun
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The dog learns through repetition and rewards to associate smell with a person and follow the scent, building up in distance and the scent’s duration.—
Jan Goldsmith,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
22 May 2025
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And after 46 days competing, the contest – the largest online chess game ever held, according to Chess.com – ended in a draw after 32 moves when the public forced a threefold repetition in a queen endgame to earn a half-point for either side.—
Ben Morse,
CNN Money,
21 May 2025
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New movies and series are added to Apple TV Plus every Wednesday and Friday, ad-free, and in surplus.—
Alexander Cox,
Space.com,
26 May 2025
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Connecticut has funneled $12.5 billion in surpluses since 2017 to build reserves and scale back pension debt, a furious pace that far outstrips any similar effort in modern history.—
Keith M. Phaneuf,
Hartford Courant,
25 May 2025
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Secretary Kristi Noem welcomed the dismissal of a lawsuit against the department for sending migrants to Guantánamo Bay.—
Filip Timotija,
The Hill,
23 May 2025
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Despite widespread doubt following the dismissal of Malone, the Nuggets, led by the Adelman and his staff, exceeded expectations.—
Ricardo Klein,
MSNBC Newsweek,
22 May 2025
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That's right—even the sprayer in your at-home spa needs to be cleaned from time to time to remove an excess of buildup that can change the way your soothing shower feels.—
Ashlyn Needham,
Southern Living,
23 May 2025
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Workers have to remove large seven-point leaves, weigh them and account for each piece of plant material before the excess gets thrown away.—
Eleanor Nash,
Kansas City Star,
22 May 2025
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Since the firings, the agency has published two brief reports based on the 2023 survey – one on use of marijuana by people 12 years and older and one about the treatments received by adults with serious mental illness.—
Rhitu Chatterjee,
NPR,
29 May 2025
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While many of these agreements have been deeply flawed and exploitive, the firing of Shira Perlmutter represents a pivot to something much worse.—
Sarah Montana,
HollywoodReporter,
29 May 2025
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But Sieh is the standout, emitting a complex blend of sardonic acceptance, cynical verbosity and submerged emotional longing.—
Chris Jones,
Chicago Tribune,
14 May 2025
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Coogler can let his characters’ verbosity get the better of story momentum.—
Michael Phillips,
Chicago Tribune,
15 Apr. 2025
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The excitement doesn't stop at this object, since its discovery hints at an abundance of similar objects in the Kuiper Belt, still waiting to be observed.—
Jack Knudson,
Discover Magazine,
23 May 2025
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His passable ensemble wisely included a pedal-steel guitarist and violinist, yet the mix muddled their contributions on an abundance of mid- and high-tempo material.—
Bob Gendron,
Chicago Tribune,
23 May 2025
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Nvidia should be using its success around the world to work hard to compete against China in other markets and stop focusing on its diminishing market share in China, especially after Trump gave the company the gift of repelling the AI diffusion rule.—
Dewardric L. McNeal,
CNBC,
29 May 2025
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The color, the pizzazz, the spectacle is what has drawn so many of us to the handiwork of the LLM in a diffusion model, where the program adds noise, prior to de-noising into a novel, coherent result.—
John Werner,
Forbes.com,
29 May 2025
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“Redundancy.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/redundancy. Accessed 4 Jun. 2025.
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