How to Use redundant in a Sentence
redundant
adjective- Some people say that since all adages are old, the phrase “old adage” is redundant.
- He edited the paper and removed any redundant information or statements.
- Avoid redundant expressions in your writing.
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Most if not all of these switches are redundant with those in the touch-screen menus.
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Dan Neil,
WSJ,
17 Mar. 2022
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But this claim is both silly and redundant.
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Tom Nichols,
The Atlantic,
15 June 2026
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In their case the credit is redundant and should not be given.
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Robert Verbruggen,
National Review,
19 Dec. 2019
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With a near five-hour run time, there are bits of jeen-yuhs that are redundant and long-winded.
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Aramide Tinubu,
Essence,
25 Jan. 2022
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Yet these arguments are redundant, when all is said and done.
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Gilead Sher,
Time,
16 Sep. 2019
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With this change, Spark would feel far more seamless than redundant.
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Ruben Circelli,
PC Magazine,
13 June 2026
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But the protein-and-sides format can feel redundant.
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Erin Bunch,
Bon Appetit Magazine,
18 Dec. 2025
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The two servers were redundant, so if one melted down the other would work as a backup.
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Michael Hiltzik,
Los Angeles Times,
9 July 2021
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The world is full of delights that might appear on paper to be redundant but aren’t.
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Jeremy Repanich,
Robb Report,
1 July 2023
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To describe a rapper as a lover of things like wordplay and turn-of-phrase might be redundant.
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Chris Varias,
Cincinnati.com,
11 Nov. 2019
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Get your smartphone to work faster, clean up your browser and delete redundant images.
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Kim Komando,
USA TODAY,
6 Apr. 2018
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This makes Green less redundant of Booker’s style than his past two co-stars were.
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Mat Issa,
Forbes.com,
29 Aug. 2025
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So many things are bound to be redundant, like the look of bobsled after bobsled hurtling down the same track.
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Phil Rosenthal,
chicagotribune.com,
26 Feb. 2018
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But, yeah, the day-to-day grind does get pretty redundant (after) doing it for a long time.
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Eric Branch,
San Francisco Chronicle,
31 Jan. 2023
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Of course, limiting the perks to just paying users is redundant.
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Ananya Bhattacharya,
Quartz,
22 June 2022
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But the lengthy Keller scene feels redundant, if not self-indulgent.
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Alan Sepinwall,
Rolling Stone,
27 June 2024
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Having two nostrils is far from redundant.
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Sarah Philip,
Popular Science,
4 Dec. 2025
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Scary stories about the future are redundant when the task of dealing with the present is so urgent.
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Fintan O’Toole,
The Atlantic,
16 Dec. 2021
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That’s in case the redundant computers that control the machine should fail at the same time.
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Robert Mark,
Robb Report,
5 Aug. 2021
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In the original, there was a lot of backstory, and some things that felt redundant.
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James Hebert,
sandiegouniontribune.com,
22 Mar. 2018
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On the other, older workers are deemed out-of-touch and are being made redundant.
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Sheila Callaham,
Forbes,
24 Oct. 2021
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This boost also improves speed since the system no longer sorts through redundant data.
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Kurt Knutsson,
FOXNews.com,
14 Dec. 2025
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Layers of redundant safety are built out and out and out from the reactor that powers the plant.
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Caroline Delbert,
Popular Mechanics,
2 Dec. 2020
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The skills sets of Poeltl and Eubanks are somewhat redundant.
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Jeff McDonald,
San Antonio Express-News,
16 Apr. 2021
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The questions can be boring and redundant (not, of course, those from Glamour).
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Stephanie McNeal,
Glamour,
16 Feb. 2024
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The files are also very redundant, which stems from the fact that any two human genomes are nearly identical.
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Dmitri Pavlichin,
IEEE Spectrum,
22 Aug. 2018
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Zap anything redundant that’s taking up space on the cloud from that out-of-focus sunset to those dozens of videos of the same scene.
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Juliet Kinsman,
Condé Nast Traveler,
21 Apr. 2023
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