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On a recent weekday, the country’s leading legal lexicographer was ensconced among the 4,500 some-odd dictionaries that fill his Dallas home, revising the entry for the adjective “calculated” ahead of Black’s 13th Edition.

But you walk out underwhelmed, which is not an adjective that generally applies to anything Bruce Springsteen does.

“There’s no more adjectives you can use to describe him.”

“There’s not enough adjectives, superlatives—whatever you want to say,” Dodgers first baseman Freddie Freeman said.

The words used to characterize the Dodgers’ starting rotation this postseason obscured what could be the most important adjective to describe the group: Indispensable.