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# R38 (skill-language-style): hedging/filler adverbs to omit. Extends
# Microsoft.Wordiness rather than duplicating it -- Wordiness already
# covers "in order to" and "utilize"/"make use of"; this fills the gap
# for words whose fix is deletion, not substitution, so they're modeled
# as `existence` (flag-only) instead of `substitution` (replace-with).
extends: existence
message: "Consider removing '%s' — it adds no information here."
link: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/style-guide/word-choice/use-simple-words-concise-sentences
level: suggestion
ignorecase: true
nonword: true
tokens:
- '\bsimply\b'
- '\bobviously\b'
- '\bclearly\b'
- '\bbasically\b'
- '\bessentially\b'
- '\bindeed\b'
- '\bactually\b'