How To Use Redundant In A Sentence

There are a few plotlines and characters - Sophie's mother in particular - that are somewhat redundant and unnecessary.
Finally, the Clerk involves voters in facilitating not only recounts and redundant checks but revotes as well.
The council claimed its ambition to support the results of the scheme financially could not be achieved unless more than 120 employees were made redundant.
From his side of the racial divide, the ordeal of mobilization proved simply redundant.
I was made redundant and now have to rely on my daughter financially. The Sun

Many Roman traditions and institutions also disappeared or simply became redundant in the process, not least the arenas and amphitheatres for the circuses and games once supported by the state and municipal authorities.
Architects were needed to transform buildings made redundant by the Revolution, such as churches, into buildings serving new public needs.
Some people who are made redundant get another job or become economically inactive. Times, Sunday Times
Remember also that many disk and other utility programs are incompatible, this is not necessarily a problem as they are largely redundant.
Most of these duplicated segments are doomed to oblivion, because any proteins their genes produce are redundant.
In addition to the milk floats there were also a few redundant horse vehicles, including a pre-war bread van and a hansom cab.
How much better to see a redundant farm building re-developed for a new purpose than to let it remain unused.
The push for interracial adoption is redundant and behind the curve.
_unto_ is placed last in the verse, and at the half period, and is redundant, there is the former synchysis in the words "the sword, nor surfeits" which in construction ought to have been placed before the other. The works of John Dryden, $c now first collected in eighteen volumes. $p Volume 04
Have new television channels, satellite cable etc. made the film critic redundant and fit for an academic existence only?
Some people who are made redundant get another job or become economically inactive. Times, Sunday Times
In addition, each of these components will also typically have redundant internal components.
My partner was made redundant last November and hasn't secured further employment as yet.
However, one should note that Kahneman and Henik's dual displays consisted of an integrated display (a color word printed in a conflicting color) and a redundant uncolored display.
But, with resources draining away and the lease on the building set to expire in June, the board of trustees decided to make the youth workers redundant and close the club down in March.
This always struck me as redundant, since if we assume the system obeys the equations of motion, the action must be invariant under ANY infinitesimal variation (since the EOM are found by assuming that the action is at an extremum). Special Post: Noether’s First Theorem – Emmy Noether for Ada Lovelace Day
This modus operandi is one of the main causes of the problems that redundant executives face. Personnel Management: A New Approach
The 'id' is out, the 'super-ego' is redundant. Times, Sunday Times
I kind of redundant, will be redundant to become your excess.
Castle Street's dog-leg bend will be straightened out to meet with Caroline Street and the resulting redundant area will then be turned into parking bays for future residents.
His best work, though, is self-indulgent, redundant, and exasperating, and therein lay its charms.
By pruning the redundant input features and hidden units alternatively, network architecture is kept reasonable.
If you have been made redundant you may have the worry in the back of your mind that it might happen again. Life Without Work
Seventy factory workers were made redundant in the resulting cuts.
The future of another redundant church is also uncertain.
Dissident theatre which relied solely on its political dissidence quickly became redundant, and many theatres collapsed. Times, Sunday Times
Layer 3 uses perceptual audio coding and psychoacoustic compression to remove all superfluous information (more specifically, the redundant and irrelevant parts of a sound signal).
Some people who are made redundant get another job or become economically inactive. Times, Sunday Times
While preservationists can provide copious examples of how to deal with seemingly redundant historic buildings in a profitable fashion across the globe, Moscow has its own examples of what can and should be done.
A spokesperson said that the bank expects to make 15,000 staff redundant over the next three years.
The Millennium Stadium on match days is absolutely brimming with redundant miners, with coal dust in their hair and their pick-axes left at the turnstiles.
It is redundant and unnecessary, just like most government programs.
15-7: = Se lo suplica a V. =: _Se = le_, redundant pronoun anticipating Novelas Cortas
But Leicester made that sort of argument redundant last season. The Sun
Days melted together, welded by the redundant routine of tears and emptiness.
The only way it at all bothers me in usage is when it is overused or redundant, as in, “These ONES are the shoes I want.” Singular “they” and the many reasons why it’s correct « Motivated Grammar
In short, any eventuality that might render all the animals, or part thereof, stall-fed is bound to make the obligation of zakat tax redundant.
The association of AQP11 with the residual cytoplasm of elongated spermatids and the distal tail of spermatozoa supports the hypothesis of more than just a role in conferring water permeability and also in the turnover and recycling of surplus cellular components made redundant during spermiogenesis and spermiation. Naturejobs - All Jobs
For there is a sense in which (P. 16Ï) might tought to be redundant in the presence of infinitary sum principles such as (P. 15Ï) and the like. Wild Dreams Of Reality, 3
I'm not absolute certain about this (and against my better judgment I continue on) but isn't "sika deer" redundant? Distressed Human or Sika Deer?
The traditional tallymen who have been rendered redundant by the changeover to electronic voting will be welcome at the count, according to Mr Murphy, but their day in the sun will have altered inalienably.
The fax machine has been rendered almost redundant as information and documents are routinely exchanged at the press of a button.
His text is full of redundant capital letters and is lavishly verbose.
Workers who have been made redundant will be able to make claims up to £280 a week for pay, holiday pay, pay in lieu of notice and redundancy.
I learned a lesson in harsh economics when I was made redundant.
A link with rev = canonical that is short is a short url of the canonical url by definition, thus rel = short* is redundant for the use case of discovering a short url for the canonical url of some document. 0xDECAFBAD
Scottish police marksmen have been issued with a revolutionary type of plastic bullet that could make conventional firearms almost redundant.
The federal government spent $356,741 to host a one-day aboriginal summit that was dismissed by some critics as a redundant gabfest.
In the TV show, Bruno pointed out to his irascible music teacher, Mr Sharofsky, that modern technology made traditional instruments redundant.
The announcement heralds a significant step forward in the development of global data synchronization, to establish a network with standards compliance and no redundant services.
Some ppl have called me a "chihuahua" which I take offense, but gladly welcome myself as the pest against their redundant shibboleth and lies. Time to Hit Back Harder
Remove the now-redundant four inputs and extra function bit from the multiplexer. Babbage-Boole Digital Arithmetical and Logical Mill: Part 1 « The Half-Baked Maker
He added that "centralisation" of policing is a "bad idea", and said it is clear the government wants to make local police boards redundant or abolish them altogether. Undefined
The dialogue is self-consciously clunky, the characters are stereotypes and each section is fronted with a pretentiously redundant quotation.
By facilitating finding information frompreviously unknown sources, employees gain enriched access to diverse perspectives, fostering innovation and reducing the likelihood of people unwittingly working on redundant efforts. 2007 December « TalentedApps
However, as well known, there are many issues in databases, such as redundant data, missing data, uncertain data, inconsistent data, and so on, they are the barriers to knowledge discovery.
yet another book on heraldry might be thought redundant
Because these systems include redundant components, even strong perturbations may lead to only a subtle phenotype.
The court was told the company made seven people redundant in July as a result of ‘ongoing financial losses and the requirement to rationalise the business’.
This amount may be expressed as a ratio of the amount of useful information compared to the amount of redundant information.
Working as a legal executive, Tony was made redundant seven years ago after 27 years in the business.
Since acquiring the redundant farmland the trust has carried out a programme of restoration which has included restoring sluices, re-opening waterways and a grazing policy.
Remember that the options available to individuals leaving employment are the same, whether you are made redundant or not.
The syncopated measure, like the redundant, bears to the acatalectic group specific relations of duration, accentual stress, and position in the rhythmical sequence. Harvard Psychological Studies, Volume 1 Containing Sixteen Experimental Investigations from the Harvard Psychological Laboratory.
Then they survived the march of progress that made them redundant. Times, Sunday Times
Several of the works from which he has quoted have been discovered; and it has been shown that, wild as some of his legends may read in the garb in which he has given them, there is proof that important facts underlie the structure, though it has been somewhat overembellished by a redundant fancy. An Illustrated History of Ireland from AD 400 to 1800
That makes any introduction I could write for him useless and redundant.
While I read "at once" to mean "all at the same time" you obviously read it as "immediately." so while your follow up made little sense to me since it was redundant in the manner in which I read the thread starter's comment, it was quite sensible in the manner in which you read it. therefore, I dug you back up. brool story co. Original Signal - Transmitting Digg
The erosion of the district's traditional identity began when postcodes were introduced, which slowly rendered the rural name of Cheam redundant.
The passage of time has rendered redundant the distinction between new and existing duties.
On the other hand, everyone there will be able to type, and by then technology might have made the ability to sign your name redundant. The Handwriting Is on the Wall
The group went into receivership on 27 August and Mr Wright was made redundant on that date.
In dramatic form they suggested: As some industries become redundant others will be required to expand.
It's almost a redundant question for a show as exuberantly multisensory as this. Times, Sunday Times
More than 50 were made redundant on the spot and the rest were kept on for a few days, but I expect they'll be gone by Friday as well.
Some people who are made redundant get another job or become economically inactive. Times, Sunday Times
A month ago, his Edinburgh branch was issuing a press release trumpeting the fact that 46 of those made redundant there had found retraining as gas central heating fitters.
Telecommunications: highly developed, well maintained, and integrated; extensive redundant system of multiconductor cables, supplemented by microwave radio relay microwave links; 9,418,000 telephones; broadcast stations - 3 (3 relays) AM, 12 (39 repeaters) FM, 8 (7 repeaters) TV; 5 submarine cables; 1 communication satellite earth station operating in INTELSAT The 1994 CIA World Factbook
For Kilpatrick, the friend of … part of the phrase establishes possession, and thus the ‘s possessive is redundant. 2008 February « Motivated Grammar
This initially took the form of the Redundancy Payments Act of 1965, which obliged employers to pay compensation to employees who were made redundant.
It is laudable that companies are already making redundant equipment available for re-use but in the overwhelming majority of cases, they are not rendering the data on hard drives unrecoverable.
Six months later he was made redundant by the small firm that employed him.
The revamp has freed up redundant space and we are hoping there will be even more sessions as a result.
Some people who are made redundant get another job or become economically inactive. Times, Sunday Times
I don't want to use the word redundant, but we have two Revolutionary political leaders representing Maryland, and you wonder if there were great Marylanders who did anything apart from the Revolution," Cohen said. Harriet Tubman vs. John Hanson: Statuary Hall smackdown
There's no government oversight to ensure carbon offset projects are both effective and nonredundant. Five Green Goods Not Worth the Added Green
They are placing astrology on the same level as fantasy, which makes their long-winded obscurities largely redundant.
Composed of two low-rise red-brick buildings separated by a narrow alleyway, the industrial complex became redundant in 1990.
You see, all this talk of whether print is superior to web or whether the web is going to eventually make newspapers and magazines redundant is a bit silly.
Nobody had been made redundant, nor was made redundant for some considerable time.
Are fathers destined to become redundant? Times, Sunday Times
When music is free (in both senses) record companies, suits, agents, will be redundant.
The answer of the defendants, which one of the courts below characterized as ‘stuffed with irrelative and redundant matter,’ did not deny the preceding facts.
The use of radios has pretty much made the flagging use of fusees redundant.
In October, he was made redundant when the local steelworks closed. The Sun
On the premise of guaranteeing the company's gas balance, the redundant gas could be comprehensive used as fuel and chemical material to realize clean production.
I decided that the archiepiscopal slap to 'Jim' made any further intervention on my part wholly redundant, but you wrapped it all up nicely. New look ( Same Old Moaner)
It soon will decommission several redundant billing systems to improve service.
THE head of a police unit tackling political extremists was made redundant days before the student riots. The Sun
Afterward, chocolate-mousse cake and vanilla charlotte seem somewhat redundant.
It seems this man is the one who has become redundant and extraneous to your needs. Times, Sunday Times
_ -- Mr. Erskine contends that "intermitted" is redundant. Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Volume V (of 10)
With enough notice, organisations can cut job numbers through natural wastage rather than by making people redundant. Times, Sunday Times
And last week he promised to make it easier for farmers to convert redundant outbuildings into homes. Times, Sunday Times
Capitalists have never scrupled about redundant production
Although an estimated 40% of the buildings could be returned to or maintained in sustainable use, many, particularly in the former industrial heartlands of the north and Midlands, are redundant: there is no obvious new role for pithead baths or winding wheels. Listed industrial giants decaying, English Heritage warns
She mentions in her book that she had a miscarriage and talks about being made redundant. Times, Sunday Times
But that doesn't mean the books will become redundant. Times, Sunday Times
Across Scotland, cities are pock-marked with redundant churches converted into pubs, DIY outlets and designer flats.
Some people who are made redundant get another job or become economically inactive. Times, Sunday Times
‘I had been thinking about this idea for some time and, when I was made redundant, it seemed like a great time to try it,’ he said.
It is understood that another 44 employees in pre-production and production support are also set to be made redundant.
It opens up a whole new market in police departments who did not adopt the Glock because it does not have a redundant safety to deter dirtbags from slipping up behind a police officer, jerking his pistol and plugging him in the back.
It is typical of the farmland which will increasingly become redundant.
The trade unions took up the cudgels for the 367 staff made redundant.
That it is no worse than pleonastic, that is, redundant, therefore only unnecessary, can be no satisfaction to the man who would find perfection, if he may, in the words of him who was nearer the Lord than any other. Unspoken Sermons Third Series
The libretto was re-written for raciness and local flavour and sung in English with surtitles, which seems redundant but was surprisingly handy.
Council of Governors" to help "synchronize" policy regarding foreign and domestic military operations doesn't merely add another redundant layer of bureaucracy to the overgrown Homeland Security apparatus. Pro Libertate
Six of the federation's eight permanent staff were made redundant after its last general assembly in May.
The company behind the scheme folded in 2002, making 40 people redundant and leaving farmers with acres of half-grown coppicing plantations on their hands.
To tolerate single event upset (SEU) induced soft errors, a redundant stream execution decoupled micro-architecture of fault-tolerant processors is proposed.
The continuous improvement in productive efficiency which it promotes leads to growing technological unemployment as existing jobs become redundant. The Times Literary Supplement
Telephone system: highly developed and well maintained; extensive redundant system of multiconductor cables, supplemented by microwave radio relay domestic: nationwide cellular telephone system; microwave radio relay international: 5 submarine cables; satellite earth stations - 3 The 1996 CIA Factbook
In the sentence, "She is a single unmarried woman", the word "unmarried" is redundant.
With mobile phones so ubiquitous, it's tempting to consider the cordless home phone redundant. Times, Sunday Times
And aseparate report on responsibility would be unnecessarily redundant. Dominus Vobiscum
The picture has too much redundant detail.
(Turns out that whelmed is a real word that means “to cover with water,” so “overwhelmed” is a tad redundant and “underwhelmed” is just plan oxymoronic.) Heart over head : Bev Vincent
In time these training sessions became redundant and unnecessary.
Stunning magazines'The internet covers shopping so well, it makes that part of magazines redundant. Times, Sunday Times
He has whittled away at the government's bureaucratic deadwood, eliminated many redundant agencies and unsnarled much of the red tape that has long made official business a nightmare. Silvio Slips Up
Greensides, close to the top of Leith Walk, was fifteen years old, slabbed with obsolete fortification, pocked with likewise redundant gunports, and still referred to as ‘the new station’. Well, Ken MacLeod agrees with me rather than with Jonathan Swift
Six months later he was made redundant by the small firm that employed him.
The phrase is usually overused and redundant, but here it genuinely applies: anything could happen. Times, Sunday Times
You will also be unable to claim if you were not in continuous employment for at least six months before being made redundant. Times, Sunday Times
The assumption that robots will make humans redundant and replaceable is unfounded.
Despite the financial difficulties, no members of staff were made redundant thanks to the company's prudent management. Times, Sunday Times
He wrote some great short stories in SF and fantasy and horror and there's scarcely a stinker among them, even when the SF elements feel tacked on or redundant or protective colouration for the fantastic. Archive 2010-05-01
They have added/deleted/amended a clause in the contract which says the company can make people redundant for economic reasons.
Have new television channels, satellite cable etc. made the film critic redundant and fit for an academic existence only?
All users are dual-homed, meaning their data is served from two separate locations, so there is a redundant live copy of their data. Macworld
They may represent calcified daughter hydatid cysts separated by fibrous tissue or, more likely, a redundant, folded, inner germinal wall of a cyst.
Hence it is unlikely that one or the other constraint is truly redundant.
He said that he opposed the secret memos written by the Office of Legal Counsel purporting to authorize torture, not because they violated existing law, but because they would have rendered moot an amendment proposed by Senator John McCain (and signing-statemented away by President George W. Bush) to redundantly re-criminalize torture by the military while allowing it for the CIA. Too Slow Zelikow: UVA Backs Torture
A chipper provided by the council made short work of the redundant trees, which were taken away to be composted and used around the city's parks.
Haig separated half-crowns, sixpences and other redundant coins out of the pile, then he began to sort the rest into £1 units.
Bibby's brainwave for Badger's bins Redundant storage bins at Wilton have a new use - as havens for badgers.
Then they survived the march of progress that made them redundant. Times, Sunday Times
His flat options for a title further betray his depression: he toyed with “Imitating the Equator,” “Another Innocent Abroad,” “The Latest,” and “The Surviving Innocent Abroad”; not until July did he decide on Following the Equator and its faintly redundant subtitle, A Journey Around the World. Mark Twain
Although it was originally designed to be redundant and robust to a nuclear explosion, it's long since dropped the redundance. An Energy Internet?, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
While the descriptive "krautrock" has been the most commonly used word in any TA reviews, its usage has become painfully redundant. Playback:stl Syndication
It is hoped that some of the employees already made redundant will be re-employed.
Omar Abdullah in his capacity as Chairman of the Board approved renovation of redundant and outdate power project which are considered vital power production units of the State. JK Govt approved 450 MW Baglihar-II,strengthening the Power capability of the State
There are quite a lot of redundant office buildings in Bristol and a lot of these are decent buildings. Times, Sunday Times
My husband was made redundant late last year.
Actually, since the domain of a function is usually implicit from context, putting the * in front of an extended function is slightly redundant and thus usually omitted.
With playing such as this, arguments regarding on which sort of instrument, whether piano or harpsichord, they should be played, become redundant.
We will need an armed force, certainly for the long term foreseeable future but we really don't need a lot of the very expensive and dubious boys toys that the military possess as most of them are either useless, redundant of of no practical use. The Guardian World News
The design takes its cue from redundant gasometer and gantry structures adjoining the site.
It was clear that the majority of drivers felt that this signage was either redundant or in error and few were driving at 50 mph, even in the slow lane.
Addressing hardware redundancy: Hardware redundancy includes items such as redundant routers, servers, disks, and power supplies.
Prophylaxis for infective endocarditis is warranted only in those patients with the true disease of thickened redundant mitral leaflets, mitral regurgitation, or both.
The survival of slimmed-down companies is small comfort for people made redundant.
He said: ‘I was made redundant and then they found me a job as a clerk at Paddington Station.’
The employer sold the business some years after the employee commenced work and the employee was made redundant.
The redundant building was advertised as a potential business centre, equipped with offices and laboratory space.
Instantly I expect people to assume I have my facts wrong when I use the word "president" instead of mayor, but let's be clear, the proposal that the Tories have pushed whereby large cities in England would have directly elected mayors with presidential powers which allow them to make councillors almost totally redundant is the last thing that local democracy needs. Why do the Tories and Labour think that cities should elect presidents ?
Padded but austere, square seat and backrest, with chrome legs and elegant stitching, the armless chair — in fact, my entire office: sleek no-nonsense windows; spare masculine furnishings; metal and black leather and dark wood — rendered him out of place and hulkingly redundant. In the hot seat
This belatedness renders much of what I might otherwise say redundant, since other, better critics have previously covered most of the things I would otherwise have said here: Dan 'Hart to Hart' Hartland, for instance a much more expert Holmesian than I gets it pretty much right, I think. Archive 2010-07-01
In the sentence, "She is a single unmarried woman", the word "unmarried" is redundant.
Then they survived the march of progress that made them redundant. Times, Sunday Times
You will also be unable to claim if you were not in continuous employment for at least six months before being made redundant. Times, Sunday Times
For one thing, it is needlessly redundant, since it basically comes down to saying that Kant's logocentrism ensures that logocentrism conceives the fine arts in a logocentric manner.
At the same time, 114 of the authority's tradesmen have been told they could be made redundant because of threatened cuts.
There is nothing to say that anyone recently made redundant from a bank would have any more experience of classroom management, planning, laws, issues than a classroom assistant with 10 years experience of a classroom who would be expected to do a one year PGCE. Teaching in 6 months ? Idiocy from Labour
My husband was made redundant late last year.
My husband was made redundant late last year.
For within the context of international politics, faith is redundant as it calls for assumptive reasoning in a landscape of constant change and hidden agendas.
Once injected, the iron-carbohydrate complex is metabolized [by macrophage of the reticuloendothelial system] and the iron is released where it then binds to transferrin in plasma and the redundant carbohydrate moiety is then cleared by the liver. SeekingAlpha.com: Home Page
There is a single path for power and cooling distribution, with no redundant components; all systems are N.
Our wilful choices enter neither as redundant nor epiphenomenal effects, but rather as fundamental dynamical elements that have the causal efficacy that the objective data appear to assign to them. Book Review: Quantum Enigma
Workers will be humanised by future technology, not made redundant, upskilled instead of being made obsolete.
Human contacts increasingly are not human at all, but electronic jiggery-pokery - even voices are made redundant by text and e-mail.
Two years ago, up to 250 workers were made redundant.
Temporarily Hadrian's Wall became redundant; gates were removed from the milecastles, and parts of the Vallum were deliberately slighted to form additional crossings.
All over the town there are brownfield sites, and redundant buildings that could be converted or rebuilt. Times, Sunday Times
The trade unions took up the cudgels for the 367 staff made redundant.
The journal's continuous pagination through each volume makes this datum redundant, of course.
Objective:To investigate the developmental regularity of Meissner's corpuscles in redundant prepuces.
The government organisation for whom I slog my guts out are making trillions of people redundant due to a ‘restructure’.
Land beside Blue Bridge Lane, currently a redundant building, would have 24 three storey houses built on it.
A number of the employees were made redundant but the receiver hoped to carry on with the remaining workforce until February.
at the risk of being redundant I return to my original proposition
My husband was made redundant late last year.
More than 300 head office staff were made redundant last week. Times, Sunday Times

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