How to Use redundancy in a Sentence
redundancy
noun
- 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.
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At State Street, there seems to be a lot to choose from, but I was struck by the sheer redundancy of the menus.
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Soleil Ho,
San Francisco Chronicle,
18 May 2022
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But that redundancy is also part of the show’s strength, in a way.
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Matthew Gilbert,
BostonGlobe.com,
10 Nov. 2021
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The Reds had some redundancy with Suárez and Mike Moustakas at third base.
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Bobby Nightengale,
The Enquirer,
26 Apr. 2022
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In August the bank announced a plan to complete 4,700 redundancies by the end of this year.
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The Economist,
2 Nov. 2019
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Now, that was caught because there was a redundancy in the system that picked it up.
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CBS News,
7 Apr. 2021
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But that redundancy would be hard to come by if planning took on more and more of the economy.
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The Economist,
18 Dec. 2019
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A certain amount of the work of avoiding redundancy is just part of being alive.
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Cheri Lucas Rowlands,
Longreads,
1 Nov. 2022
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With anything less, the gaps and redundancies between them come to bear.
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Rob Mahoney,
SI.com,
22 Mar. 2018
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Their cables have double redundancy for the people who are up in the air.
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Patrick Neas,
Kansas City Star,
9 Feb. 2024
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This creates redundancy, as many servers process the same code.
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Ben Weiss,
Fortune Crypto,
28 Mar. 2023
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In the end, admitting fault doesn’t make the redundancy sting any less for those involved.
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Orianna Rosa Royle,
Fortune,
24 Jan. 2023
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As part of the changes, it is understood that a small number of posts are being put at risk of redundancy.
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Victoria Murphy,
Town & Country,
20 June 2019
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But the craft has many redundancies to prevent this, Fox assured Ars.
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Beth Mole,
Ars Technica,
29 Mar. 2018
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Give me a duet, a solo, a trio even to break up the wall of bodies and redundancies created when dance goes all out, all night.
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Lauren Warnecke,
chicagotribune.com,
25 Mar. 2018
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According to The Wall Street Journal, the issue stems from a lack of redundancy.
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Aarian Marshall,
WIRED,
30 June 2019
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On the other hand, there are lots of ways to undermine this redundancy.
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Lance Eliot,
Forbes,
6 Oct. 2021
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Many firms have no room for error or redundancy and thus hire the person best for the position.
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Sue Biglieri,
Forbes,
28 Mar. 2024
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The headlines obscure the redundancy and support required to keep robots in the fight.
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Craig Hooper,
Forbes,
31 Aug. 2021
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But the worst form of redundancy comes from watching the onlookers.
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Ben Travers,
IndieWire,
18 July 2024
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These jobs are low-paid, and many lack benefits such as sick leave or redundancy pay.
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Yasmeen Serhan,
The Atlantic,
6 Aug. 2020
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Which prompts the question: As with 78 rpm records and 8-track tapes before them, does the news further the compact disc's march toward redundancy?
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Randall Roberts,
latimes.com,
2 Mar. 2018
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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.
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Ryan Cooper,
The Week,
13 Oct. 2021
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There's redundancy on the roster (the top three players are all wings) and major questions in the backcourt and frontcourt.
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Orion Sang,
Detroit Free Press,
25 Nov. 2020
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The bypass line, which was built as a redundancy measure, also washed out.
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Graham Averill,
Outside Online,
10 Oct. 2024
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The suit is equipped with several redundancy systems and an integrated diagnostic system.
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Emilio Cozzi,
WIRED,
16 Oct. 2024
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