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  • adjective Not required.

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un- +‎ required

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Examples

  • The tactical destruction of unrequired historic buildings.

    The Festival of Britain, 60 years on 2011

  • You just have to look at that, said Robinson nodding towards the gaggle of Huddersfield's unrequired or unavailable.

    Huddersfield Town look ready to gain promotion to the Championship | John Ashdown 2011

  • The contamination was first detected nearly two weeks ago during “unrequired testing” by a Kraft Foods Inc. manufacturer, according to The Associated Press.

    Pistachio Recall Could Be a Catalyst for FDA Overhaul 2009

  • Agreed. praedor joins foghat, goatlife, and sfcwallace in my "automatically scroll past unrequired reading" list ...

    Obama Raises $52 Million In June 2009

  • Get in the habit of unplugging/turning off entirely systems when not in use/the power charging is unrequired.

    A. Siegel: Kill a Vampire for Halloween ... 2008

  • That's four hours a week of potentially shameful time in your M&S underpants sufficient support unrequired due to late puberty, so tell me how is that different to what the Government is saying we must do today?

    When did we stop doing these things? 2008

  • The telecommunications failure Oct. 20 should not be used by the provincial government as a rationale in attempting to convince the public that we should make an investment in unrequired infrastructure.

    Archive 2006-11-01 Ed Hollett 2006

  • His unrequired presence prevented me from speaking freely to Syddall, and I dared not send him away for fear of increasing such suspicions as he might entertain from his former abrupt dismissal from the library.

    Rob Roy 2005

  • From the moment that you are dressed and go out, pocket all your knowledge with your watch, and never pull it out in company unless desired: the producing of the one unasked, implies that you are weary of the company; and the producing of the other unrequired, will make the company weary of you.

    Letters to his son on The Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman 2005

  • The project has been planned some decades ago only to produce maximum energy and to increase excessively waterway capacity, unrequired by the heaviest traffic imaginable on this section of the river.

    Making the History of 1989 1989

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