diff --git a/proselint/checks/archaism/misc.py b/proselint/checks/archaism/misc.py
index 7cfe443f9..148a30a7c 100644
--- a/proselint/checks/archaism/misc.py
+++ b/proselint/checks/archaism/misc.py
@@ -68,7 +68,6 @@ def check(text):
         "enclosed herein",
         "inforce",
         "ex postfacto",
-        "foreclose from",
         "forewent",
         "for ever",
         # "designer", when used to mean a plotter against Christ
diff --git a/proselint/checks/needless_variants/misc.py b/proselint/checks/needless_variants/misc.py
index 13e51cd7f..64998e7ad 100644
--- a/proselint/checks/needless_variants/misc.py
+++ b/proselint/checks/needless_variants/misc.py
@@ -170,7 +170,6 @@ def check(text):
         ["exoticism",         ["exotism"]],
         ["expediency",        ["expedience"]],
         ["expedient",         ["expediential"]],
-        ["expedient",         ["expediential"]],
         ["extendable",        ["extensible"]],
         ["eyeing",            ["eying"]],
         ["fief",              ["fiefdom"]],
@@ -364,7 +363,6 @@ def check(text):
         ["thenceforth",       ["thenceforward"]],
         ["transience",        ["transiency"]],
         ["transposition",     ["transposal"]],
-        ["transposition",     ["transposal"]],
         ["unalterable",       ["inalterable"]],
         ["uncommunicative",   ["incommunicative"]],
         ["uncontrollable",    ["incontrollable"]],
diff --git a/proselint/checks/oxymorons/misc.py b/proselint/checks/oxymorons/misc.py
index be2aa09a9..8c33e2eb5 100644
--- a/proselint/checks/oxymorons/misc.py
+++ b/proselint/checks/oxymorons/misc.py
@@ -31,7 +31,6 @@ def check(text):
         "completely obsolescent",
         "generally always",
         "usually always",
-        "increasingly less",
         "build down",
         "conspicuous absence",
         "exact estimate",