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In an irrelevant or not pertinent manner.

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Usage examples (13)
  • Barack intentionally, extraneously ventured into straw man land in order to define journalism itself as a detestable “old Washington game”.
  • Cameron said "the difficult technical thing for the Bank is to work out what is actually a trend rise in inflation and what is a one-off increase in the price level because of...
  • The prose is never clunky, extraneously verbose or bogged down with disposition; the writing is neither grand nor pedestrian and the fact that everything comes at...
  • It should be added, though, that monoculture, especially of molluscs in brackish water and of predatory fish such as trout, salmon, or groupers, can furnish high annual yields...
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