How to Use redundancy in a Sentence

redundancy

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  • Try to avoid using redundancies in your writing.
  • The workers are now facing redundancy.
  • Avoid redundancy in your writing.
  • The restructuring is expected to result in the redundancy of several hundred workers.
  • The design incorporates several redundancies.
  • At State Street, there seems to be a lot to choose from, but I was struck by the sheer redundancy of the menus.
    — Soleil Ho, San Francisco Chronicle, 18 May 2022
  • But that redundancy is also part of the show’s strength, in a way.
    — Matthew Gilbert, BostonGlobe.com, 10 Nov. 2021
  • The Reds had some redundancy with Suárez and Mike Moustakas at third base.
    — Bobby Nightengale, The Enquirer, 26 Apr. 2022
  • A certain amount of the work of avoiding redundancy is just part of being alive.
    — Cheri Lucas Rowlands, Longreads, 1 Nov. 2022
  • Their cables have double redundancy for the people who are up in the air.
    — Patrick Neas, Kansas City Star, 9 Feb. 2024
  • This creates redundancy, as many servers process the same code.
    — Ben Weiss, Fortune Crypto, 28 Mar. 2023
  • In the end, admitting fault doesn’t make the redundancy sting any less for those involved.
    — Orianna Rosa Royle, Fortune, 24 Jan. 2023
  • On the other hand, there are lots of ways to undermine this redundancy.
    — Lance Eliot, Forbes, 6 Oct. 2021
  • Many firms have no room for error or redundancy and thus hire the person best for the position.
    — Sue Biglieri, Forbes, 28 Mar. 2024
  • But that's exactly the kind of redundancy that makes a supply system more robust — and the lack of it helped cause the supply chain crisis in the first place.
    — Ryan Cooper, The Week, 13 Oct. 2021
  • And there would likely need to be some sort of redundancy, meaning if one part of the life-support system failed, a backup would kick in.
    — Jennifer Leman, Popular Mechanics, 2 May 2022
  • Freeman said there is a lot of thought and redundancy that goes into giving out a vaccine.
    — Jen Christensen, CNN, 16 Oct. 2021
  • There’s amusing redundancy in calling it the Milky Way galaxy, as many do.
    — Phil Plait, Scientific American, 4 Aug. 2023
  • But on a roster loaded with wings, his skill set is no redundancy and is why the Clippers coveted him ahead of the trade deadline.
    — Andrew Greifstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 7 Apr. 2022
  • Nine times by my count — echoing the film’s sadistic redundancy.
    — Armond White, National Review, 5 Oct. 2022
  • Some of the crucial layers of redundancies that are supposed to ensure that Boeing’s planes are safe appear to be strained, the people said.
    — Santul Nerkar, New York Times, 28 Mar. 2024
  • Repetition does not have to be a redundancy that wears us down.
    — Chris Richards, Washington Post, 25 Nov. 2022
  • The redundancy adds a layer of safety, said the company.
    — J. George Gorant, Robb Report, 6 Dec. 2021
  • Have built-in redundancy in seed-saving systems, building up a reliable seed bank (both in the soil in a garden and indoors) over time.
    — Elizabeth Waddington, Treehugger, 12 July 2023
  • As a result, there's plenty of redundancy in the genetic code.
    — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 11 June 2022
  • The above methods of redundancy are preventive and strategic in nature and can help avoid single points of failure.
    — Cyrus Hadavi, Forbes, 7 Mar. 2022
  • To help break through this redundancy, B2B marketers should take a page from their B2C counterparts and ditch the sales pitches in favor of storytelling that helps the buyer connect with the brand.
    — Karl Van Den Bergh, Forbes, 7 June 2022
  • The redundancy requires a patch, though, which NASA engineers are working on.
    — Joshua Hawkins, BGR, 7 June 2022
  • The employee wrote that at 8 a.m., he was notified of his redundancy.
    — Kylie Robison, Fortune, 3 Feb. 2023
  • Indeed, the album’s redundancy has the odd effect of calling into question the guitars are back!
    — Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 18 Jan. 2023

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