This continues our list of the common redundancies. In each case, we can eliminate the needless repetition by omitting the word or phrase in parentheses.
F
- (face) mask
- fall (down)
- (favorable) approval
- (fellow) classmates
- (fellow) colleague
- few (in number)
- filled (to capacity)
- (final) conclusion
- (final) end
- (final) outcome
- (final) ultimatum
- (first and) foremost
- (first) conceived
- first (of all)
- fly (through the air)
- follow (after)
- (foreign) imports
- (former) graduate
- (former) veteran
- (free) gift
- (from) whence
- (frozen) ice
- (frozen) tundra
- full (to capacity)
- (full) satisfaction
- fuse (together)
- (future) plans
- (future) recurrence
G
- gather (together)
- (general) public
- GOP (party)
- GRE (exam)
- green [or blue or whatever] (in color)
- grow (in size)
H
- had done (previously)
- (harmful) injuries
- (head) honcho
- heat (up)
- HIV (virus)
- hoist (up)
- (hollow) tube
- hurry (up)
I
- (illustrated) drawing
- incredible (to believe)
- indicted (on a charge)
- input (into)
- integrate (together)
- integrate (with each other)
- interdependent (on each other)
- introduced (a new)
- introduced (for the first time)
- (ir)regardless
- ISBN (number)
J
- join (together)
- (joint) collaboration
K
- kneel (down)
- (knowledgeable) experts
L
- lag (behind)
- later (time)
- LCD (display)
- lift (up)
- (little) baby
- (live) studio audience
- (live) witness
- (local) residents
- look (ahead) to the future
- look back (in retrospect)
M
- made (out) of
- (major) breakthrough
- (major) feat
- manually (by hand)
- may (possibly)
- meet (together)
- meet (with each other)
- (mental) telepathy
- merge (together)
- might (possibly)
- minestrone (soup)
- mix (together)
- modern ______ (of today)
- (mutual) cooperation
- (mutually) interdependent
- mutual respect (for each other)
- (number-one) leader in ________
N
- nape (of her neck)
- (native) habitat
- (natural) instinct
- never (before)
- (new) beginning
- (new) construction
- (new) innovation
- (new) invention
- (new) recruit
- none (at all)
- nostalgia (for the past)
- (now) pending
O
- off (of)
- (old) adage
- (old) cliche
- (old) custom
- (old) proverb
- (open) trench
- open (up)
- (oral) conversation
- (originally) created
- output (out of)
- (outside) in the yard
- outside (of)
- (over) exaggerate
- over (with)
- (overused) cliche
CONTINUED: Common Redundancies (P-Z)
