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- noun
unnecessary things
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Examples
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Most monumentally stupid option Vehicles these days come pre-loaded with unnecessaries, even before any of many ridiculous options get added.
Catherine Lutz: After the Hummer: 10 More Vehicles We Can Do Without 2010
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Most monumentally stupid option Vehicles these days come pre-loaded with unnecessaries, even before any of many ridiculous options get added.
Catherine Lutz: After the Hummer: 10 More Vehicles We Can Do Without 2010
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It lets my readers know what to expect when they visit my blog, and keeps me from wasting time blogging about the unnecessaries.
March 13th, 2008 douglascohen 2008
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Did you know how much better off you could be if you just abstained from spending money on unnecessaries?
jaimewolf Diary Entry jaimewolf 2007
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The melting pot is becoming a fondue, as increasing numbers of Americans hurl their hard-earned dollars at such unnecessaries as lattes, gourmet chocolate, Napa wine, massage, lingerie, designer wear, and Mercedes coupes.
Burgher Deluxe 2003
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The melting pot is becoming a fondue, as increasing numbers of Americans hurl their hard-earned dollars at such unnecessaries as lattes, gourmet chocolate, Napa wine, massage, lingerie, designer wear, and Mercedes coupes.
Burgher Deluxe 2003
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He lunched in town, looked up his handful of acquaintances, bought necessaries — and unnecessaries — for the voyage.
Australia Felix 2003
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Jack and Flora, and who could blame them, never wasted good cash on unnecessaries.
PROOF Francis, Dick 1984
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We must not either feign necessaries, or fall much upon unnecessaries, to satisfy them that look for novelties, though we must clothe the same truths with a grateful variety in the manner of our delivery.
The Reformed Pastor 1615-1691 1974
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We must learn to distinguish between certainties and uncertainties, necessaries and unnecessaries, catholic verities and private opinions; and to lay the stress of the Church's peace upon the former, not upon the latter.
The Reformed Pastor 1615-1691 1974
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