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Unimportant or unnecessary thing or detail

stuff

noun

things that are not important

detail

noun

a fact that is not important

non-issue

noun

a subject that is completely unimportant

irrelevance

noun

something that is not important or necessary to a particular situation or subject

bagatelle

noun

something that is not very important

inessentials

noun

things that are not necessary

minutiae

noun

very small or unimportant details

adjunct

noun

something that is added to something else but is not essential to it

trivia

noun

unimportant details or information

nothing

pronoun

not anything that is important or worth thinking about

vocal fry

a speech habit in which a speaker lowers their voice at the end of a sentence

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dray

a type of cart pulled by a horse and used in the past for carrying barrels of beer

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conflict mineral

a mineral which is mined in a place where there is armed conflict, and sold to help pay for weapons

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