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It doesn't look like this phrase is very popular! The search could not find any examples on the internet.	Jul 7, 2011 ... ... be likely to use (which answers the earlier point about political culture but then also suggests it was otiose to mention it at the previous stage). Oct 2, 2013 ... ... the applicant's attorneys after the respondent had been notified of the order of the court, it was otiose for the court to grant any leave to appeal�... It was "otiose, intellectually vacant, devoid of quickening, and plain bloody poor," according to the British historian E.P. Thompson, who called "the golden age of�... Sep 29, 2014 ... William Cavanaugh's book The Myth of Religious Violence had made the striking claim that that it was otiose to think that religion has the�...

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it was otiose

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It doesn't look like this phrase is very popular! The search could not find any examples on the internet.

Jul 7, 2011 ... ... be likely to use (which answers the earlier point about political culture but then also suggests it was otiose to mention it at the previous stage).
Oct 2, 2013 ... ... the applicant's attorneys after the respondent had been notified of the order of the court, it was otiose for the court to grant any leave to appeal�...
It was "otiose, intellectually vacant, devoid of quickening, and plain bloody poor," according to the British historian E.P. Thompson, who called "the golden age of�...
Sep 29, 2014 ... William Cavanaugh's book The Myth of Religious Violence had made the striking claim that that it was otiose to think that religion has the�...