redundant
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(s) more than is needed, desired, or required
- trying to lose excess weight
- found some extra change lying on the dresser
- yet another book on heraldry might be thought redundant
- skills made redundant by technological advance
- sleeping in the spare room
- supernumerary ornamentation
- it was supererogatory of her to gloat
- delete superfluous (or unnecessary) words
- extra ribs as well as other supernumerary internal parts
- surplus cheese distributed to the needy
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(s) repetition of same sense in different words
- "a true fact" and "a free gift" are pleonastic expressions
- the phrase "a beginner who has just started" is tautological
- at the risk of being redundant I return to my original proposition - J.B.Conant