How to Use redundancy in a Sentence

redundancy

noun
  • Try to avoid using redundancies in your writing.
  • The workers are now facing redundancy.
  • Avoid redundancy in your writing.
  • The restructuring is expected to result in the redundancy of several hundred workers.
  • The design incorporates several redundancies.
  • There’s a lot of redundancy built in there.
    — Jonathan M. Gitlin, ArsTechnica, 28 Apr. 2026
  • But that redundancy is also part of the show’s strength, in a way.
    — Matthew Gilbert, BostonGlobe.com, 10 Nov. 2021
  • To get around some of these issues, the team added some redundancy.
    — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 26 Oct. 2017
  • This creates redundancy, as many servers process the same code.
    — Ben Weiss, Fortune Crypto, 28 Mar. 2023
  • Now, that was caught because there was a redundancy in the system that picked it up.
    — CBS News, 7 Apr. 2021
  • These jobs are low-paid, and many lack benefits such as sick leave or redundancy pay.
    — Yasmeen Serhan, The Atlantic, 6 Aug. 2020
  • But not all redundancies can be written off as needless red tape.
    — Allison Morrow, CNN, 31 Jan. 2025
  • Consumer drones aren't designed with a whole lot of redundancy in mind.
    — Eric Limer, Popular Mechanics, 6 Aug. 2015
  • With anything less, the gaps and redundancies between them come to bear.
    — Rob Mahoney, SI.com, 22 Mar. 2018
  • And Tuchel had proven its redundancy at the first attempt.
    — Jack Pitt-Brooke, New York Times, 24 June 2026
  • But that redundancy would be hard to come by if planning took on more and more of the economy.
    — The Economist, 18 Dec. 2019
  • The idea of redundancy is nothing new.
    — Justin Worland, Time, 24 Apr. 2026
  • A certain amount of the work of avoiding redundancy is just part of being alive.
    — Cheri Lucas Rowlands, Longreads, 1 Nov. 2022
  • Their cables have double redundancy for the people who are up in the air.
    — Patrick Neas, Kansas City Star, 9 Feb. 2024
  • Waste, abuse, redundancy and fraud.
    — Kaitlyn Schallhorn, Oc Register, 4 May 2026
  • Jacobson says the system is not at risk and there are redundancies in place.
    — Christa Swanson, CBS News, 21 Dec. 2025
  • And there are redundancies if a pilot or controller starts to do something wrong.
    — Alexandra Skores, CNN Money, 29 Mar. 2025
  • Nine times by my count — echoing the film’s sadistic redundancy.
    — Armond White, National Review, 5 Oct. 2022
  • The same type of redundancy shows up in holography.
    — Quanta Magazine, 3 June 2026
  • On the other hand, there are lots of ways to undermine this redundancy.
    — Lance Eliot, Forbes, 6 Oct. 2021
  • Even more troubling, critics say, is the lack of redundancy in the supply chain.
    — Sarah Varney, New York Times, 12 Jan. 2018
  • In the end, admitting fault doesn’t make the redundancy sting any less for those involved.
    — Orianna Rosa Royle, Fortune, 24 Jan. 2023
  • The bypass line, which was built as a redundancy measure, also washed out.
    — Graham Averill, Outside Online, 10 Oct. 2024
  • Many firms have no room for error or redundancy and thus hire the person best for the position.
    — Sue Biglieri, Forbes, 28 Mar. 2024
  • Freeman said there is a lot of thought and redundancy that goes into giving out a vaccine.
    — Jen Christensen, CNN, 16 Oct. 2021

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