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.
  • 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
  • Now, that was caught because there was a redundancy in the system that picked it up.
    CBS News, 7 Apr. 2021
  • But that redundancy would be hard to come by if planning took on more and more of the economy.
    The Economist, 18 Dec. 2019
  • 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
  • The headlines obscure the redundancy and support required to keep robots in the fight.
    Craig Hooper, Forbes, 31 Aug. 2021
  • These jobs are low-paid, and many lack benefits such as sick leave or redundancy pay.
    Yasmeen Serhan, The Atlantic, 6 Aug. 2020
  • 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
  • There's redundancy on the roster (the top three players are all wings) and major questions in the backcourt and frontcourt.
    Orion Sang, Detroit Free Press, 25 Nov. 2020
  • 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
  • Miller was concerned about the contract because of its price and redundancy.
    Kacen Bayless, Kansas City Star, 31 May 2024
  • 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
  • With the trades complete, the Brewers have plenty of positional redundancy for the rest of the season.
    Tom Haudricourt, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 4 Aug. 2021
  • 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
  • That's due to the redundancy inherent in so many file types on our computers.
    Courtney Linder, Popular Mechanics, 21 Aug. 2020
  • In anticipation of the mega merger, the brands that now make up Warner Bros. Discovery shed thousands of what Zaslav & co. felt to be employment redundancies.
    Tony Maglio, IndieWire, 16 July 2024
  • Having redundancies in the infrastructure may be costly in the beginning, but would be an investment in maintaining the trust between the businesses and their customers, Abed said.
    Bailey Schulz, USA TODAY, 20 July 2024

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