Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In an extraneous manner; from without.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adverb In an
extraneous manner.
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Examples
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It's just you and the bump da da bump da da bump da da and everything else happening in the song, at least to me, feels like it's happening kind of extraneously, at the top of the song where, once it's loud enough, you can't really register it anyway.
Tiny Cat Pants 2009
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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 seemingly the righ moment (i.e. perfect pace) makes for a smooth and enjoyable read.
Archive 2009-01-01 2009
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He made sure he didn't play extraneously or he didn't do other shows ever.
Mike Ragogna: Chatting with American Idol Winner Scotty McCreery, Baaba Maal, The Box Story, and Ozzie & Harriet Estate Manager, Sam Nelson Mike Ragogna 2011
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He made sure he didn't play extraneously or he didn't do other shows ever.
Mike Ragogna: Chatting with American Idol Winner Scotty McCreery, Baaba Maal, The Box Story, and Ozzie & Harriet Estate Manager, Sam Nelson Mike Ragogna 2011
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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 something that's happening extraneously".
David Cameron voices fears over rising inflation ahead of jobs summit 2011
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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 seemingly the righ moment (i.e. perfect pace) makes for a smooth and enjoyable read.
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Barack intentionally, extraneously ventured into straw man land in order to define journalism itself as a detestable “old Washington game”.
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To his mind the word rompers connotated a garment extraneously smeared, as this one.
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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 that are commercially attractive in spite of substantial inputs: for these species, the food is extraneously supplied.
Chapter 14 1979
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To his mind the word rompers connotated a garment extraneously smeared, as this one.
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