as in extrinsic
not being a vital part of or belonging to something
the point of view that art should be for art's sake and that moral considerations are adventitious to the study of art
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Recent Examples of adventitious
The cut appears to have been high enough that the stump should still have enough adventitious buds to regrow.
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Jonathan Edwards, Washington Post, 3 Oct. 2023
Plant Deep — Really Deep Tomatoes have the ability to produce roots off their stems, known as adventitious roots.
—Margaret Roach, New York Times, 12 May 2020
This can also occur when trees are planted too deep, as adventitious (growing sideways from the stem) roots grow against the stem and squeeze the sapwood.
—Rebecca Jepsen, The Mercury News, 28 Aug. 2019
Recent Examples of Synonyms for adventitious
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When using the extrinsic approaches, the method calculates the ratio of a company’s public market value or sale value relative to the value of a core operating metric, such as revenue or EBITDA.Storm Duncan, Forbes, 6 Nov. 2024
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But here's the brutal truth: External rewards—extrinsic motivators—rarely sustain us in the long run.Akin Akinpelu, Forbes, 5 Nov. 2024
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Meanwhile, Smartmatic's lawyers argued that the indictment is irrelevant to their lawsuit.Daniel R. Depetris, Newsweek, 5 Dec. 2024
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While many of these Indigenous AI projects are in their early stages, Running Wolf hopes programs like his will be irrelevant in a decade or two.Iris Kim, NBC News, 29 Nov. 2024
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Among those evacuated to neighboring Iraq and Lebanon were top commanders of Iran’s powerful Quds Forces, the external branch of the Revolutionary Guards Corps, the officials said.Farnaz Fassihi, New York Times, 7 Dec. 2024
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There are two types of radiation: internal and external.Doru Paul, Health, 7 Dec. 2024
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For all its credits, the Swift Go 14 still makes Acer’s regular sin of sticking a few too many little pieces of extraneous software onto the machine.PCMAG, PCMAG, 27 Nov. 2024
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Vitrines holding wildly different white or black objects make no sense, because whatever might be the specific visual point of the art objects is extraneous.Christopher Knight, Los Angeles Times, 22 Nov. 2024
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Investigators have said the fire may have been accidental, not an act of arson.Eleanor Beardsley, NPR, 29 Nov. 2024
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Los Angeles coroner Thomas Noguchi ruled Natalie's cause of death as accidental drowning and hypothermia.Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 29 Nov. 2024
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Lee’s intent is to combat the rise of Asian hate statistics by making Asian culture more accessible and less alien to the general public, while also spiritually bringing back presence, care and authenticity to Old Detroit Chinatown.Duante Beddingfield, Detroit Free Press, 6 Dec. 2024
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This will be natural to some leaders but completely alien to others.Jane Sparrow, Forbes, 5 Dec. 2024
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Around half of the 101 foreign and Israeli hostages still held incommunicado in Gaza are believed to still be alive.USA TODAY, USA TODAY, 1 Dec. 2024
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There was even an appeal by Taiwan’s former President Tsai Ing-Wen, pushing back on arguments that the U.S. should be focusing its foreign military support on Taiwan, given the threat from China.Laura Kelly, The Hill, 29 Nov. 2024
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“Adventitious.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/adventitious. Accessed 12 Dec. 2024.
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