A redundancy is a term or phrase that unnecessarily repeats words or meanings. Below are some common redundancies that can usually be avoided (redundant words are italicized).
- Adequate enough
- Advance planning
- Combine together
- Completely full (empty)
- Consensus of opinion
- Contemporaneous in age
- Count (divide) up
- Covered over
- Distinguish the difference
- Each individual person
- Eliminate altogether
- Emptyout
- Enter into (exception: enter into a contract)
- Equally as well as
- Estimated at about
- Fellow colleagues
- Fewer in number
- Filled to capacity
- First initiated
- Fuse together
- Future plans
- General rule
- Herein we describe
- Interval of time
- Large (small, bulky) in size
- Lift up
- Major breakthrough
- Near to
- Out of (exceptions: out of bounds, out of place, out of the question, out of the jurisdiction, out of the woods)
- Outside of
- Aggregate together
- Brief in duration
- Oval (square, round, lenticular)in shape
- Own personal view
- Past history
- Period of time, time period, point in time
- Personal friend
- Precedes in time
- Predict in advance
- Raised up
- Reassessed again
- Red in color
- Rough (smooth) in texture
- Similar results were obtained also by
- Skin rash
- Soft (firm) in consistency
- Sour (sweet, bitter) tasting
- Split up
- Still continues
- Sum total
- Tender to the touch
- True fact
- 12 noon (midnight)
- 2 halves
- 2 out of 12
- uniformly consistent
- whether or not (unless the intent is to give equal emphasis to the alternative)
- younger (older) than 50 years of age
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