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    extraneous


    1. It is sometimes found in pieces of some bulk ; and, even when mixed, in small and almost insensible particles, with sand, earth, and other extraneous bodies, it can be separated from them by a very short and simple operation, which can be carried on in any private house by any body who is possessed of a small quantity of mercury


    2. I wondered what other items of extraneous jetsam might comprise his private zoo


    3. Did it think this was extraneous information? He knew the wormhole couldn’t be sustained for the journey back, in any case, and would have to wait it out in the ship


    4. If the authority to which he is subject resides, not so much in the body corporate, of which he is a member, as in some other extraneous persons, in the bishop of the diocese, for example, in the governor of the province, or, perhaps, in some minister of state, it is not, indeed, in this case, very likely that he will be suffered to neglect his duty altogether


    5. An extraneous jurisdiction of this kind, besides, is liable to be exercised both ignorantly and capriciously


    6. Whoever has attended for any considerable time to the administration of a French university, must have had occasion to remark the effects which naturally result from an arbitrary and extraneous jurisdiction of this kind


    7. Several extraneous sums, altogether independent of that ordinary revenue, have contributed towards it


    8. The extraneous cells should undergo an accelerated senescence and healthy function should return to the remaining ones immediately


    9. The words shook me, blew through me, stripping away every hesitation, every extraneous thought, until all that was left was him


    10. I was in the process of trying to find a pair that touted extraneous noise reduction when Terry came home one day and said he heard that Delatorre Electronics put out a line that would do a great job

    11. Nonetheless, a glance at its initial days as an English colony reveals perhaps a fanciful history in its development as a whole, but extraneous and outlandish on occasions


    12. And when a professor would rapidly join the rest on the page, only later, after reviewing, was I able to discover extraneous material and weed it from the important


    13. "I'm sure," said MACV J-3 Ops looking MACV J-2 Intel straight in the eye, "that COMUSMACV will favorably endorse both recommendations without requiring extraneous counsel


    14. science to build instruments that filter out extraneous wavelengths and


    15. A lot of it is lost on extraneous things


    16. It consists of those slightly off topic or extraneous issues that come up


    17. Some things – the extraneous things – will have to be dropped


    18. An extraneous variable that does effect the result of the experiment


    19. Was the real world the treetops? Was the real world the smell of a bass roasting on a winter night safe in a rickety shack whilst the wind howled outside? Was the real world the hot Smug on a summers day and the tickle of hookblossom as it brushed your skin? Did the real world have Extraneous Capital Letters to indicate holiness? It was a sad summation which gave Ambrosius the answer: nevermore


    20. extraneous thoughts with a deep breath, Barron knocked on the door

    21. these investments were immediately extraneous to the production of PCs, they showed the


    22. He also discarded most of the writings that would be adopted as the New Testament by other Christian groups, choosing to minimize the extraneous material and


    23. Flashes of light and swirls of sparkling specks of dust where extraneous bits of information being discarded or woven into the fabric of the new manifestation kept the eyes entertained


    24. Only the hose bumping him in the shoulder when he turned still reminded him of the extraneous equipment


    25. He was particularly good at research design and controlling for extraneous factors which would contaminate outcome data


    26. restraining the interpolation of extraneous disorderly thoughts in the flow of meditation and take


    27. We dispense with extraneous data and focus on the message, not what are the parts telling me in their holistic trans-437


    28. confirming that there are no extraneous materials in the ‘dala’ of the truck


    29. The matter was settled; and he put it aside as every worker must put the extraneous aside


    30. Shut out all extraneous thoughts

    31. There are many events where extraneous factors other than


    32. always remain in the minds whether failure was due to extraneous


    33. milieu of the suburbs, and this extraneous feeling surprised him a


    34. But beyond this bare necessity: any extraneous contact becomes inevitably corrupt


    35. These extraneous ghouls were literally shucked OFF their victims when the prisoners were made take off all their clothes and had their clothes thrown into the airtight delousing chamber… Too late, many of these undead spirits suddenly found themselves inside a poison gas chamber and they couldn’t get out without killing themselves…


    36. Only when you have finished will you see what you have actually written and only then, when sufficient time has passed, will you see the extraneous material you have inserted or the points you have forgotten to make


    37. extraneous portions of my thinking involved in any internal dialogue


    38. All other extraneous noise was silenced by the mere fact that my focus was on


    39. While the particles Yang (emitting the Spirit) are capable of a similar perception of extraneous Information (Energy, Spirit) only in cases when there is a transformation of their quality, that is, when they receive the excess Spirit (Ether, Information)


    40. However, if on their memory, on their “I”, on their "consciousness" ever influenced the Energy of other particle Yang, this extraneous information is also woven into the Records of the particle

    41. So you can imagine - how much extraneous information the man has to pass through him


    42. There was no occasion for him now to interpolate extraneous matter; nay, his readers told him plainly that what they wanted of him was more Don Quixote and more Sancho Panza, and not novels, tales, or digressions


    43. Hawkeye listened while he coolly adjusted his flint and reloaded his rifle; but the sounds, wanting the extraneous assistance of scene and sympathy, failed to awaken his slumbering emotions


    44. Of some one sole unique advertisement to cause passers to stop in wonder, a poster novelty, with all extraneous accretions excluded, reduced to its simplest and most efficient terms not exceeding the span of casual vision and congruous with the velocity of modern life


    45. If each, I told myself, could be housed in separate identities, life would be relieved of all that was unbearable; the unjust might go his way, delivered from the aspirations and remorse of his more upright twin; and the just could walk steadfastly and securely on his upward path, doing the good things in which he found his pleasure, and no longer exposed to disgrace and penitence by the hands of this extraneous evil


    46. But to think of anything extraneous was an agonizing effort


    47. Everyone present, feeling too that something had happened, talked eagerly about extraneous subjects


    48. Running into the marsh among the familiar scents of roots, marsh plants, and slime, and the extraneous smell of horse dung, Laska detected at once a smell that pervaded the whole marsh, the scent of that strong-smelling bird


    49. It seemed to him something extraneous, superfluous, to which he could not accustom himself


    50. Extraneous footage, B-roll of the aftermath


















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    Synonyms for "extraneous"

    external extraneous outside immaterial impertinent orthogonal foreign exotic alien extrinsic irrelevant adventitious incidental inappropriate

    "extraneous" definitions

    not pertinent to the matter under consideration


    not essential


    not belonging to that in which it is contained; introduced from an outside source


    coming from the outside