expendable

Example Sentences

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Tech billionaires looking to burnish their image seem to believe that the work ethic is an expendable feature of a free-market society.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 24, 2026

Atacms stands for Army Tactical Missile System, while Himars is an acronym for High Mobility Artillery Rocket System, an Army truck that carries expendable pods of rockets or missiles.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 19, 2026

The man from the future doesn’t have a plan — and worse, he considers himself the only person who isn’t expendable.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 12, 2026

The people in stories like these are designed to be expendable through the film’s ensuing events, fodder for the chills and thrills.

From Salon • Jan. 31, 2026

Desiring cheap, expendable labor, colonists imported nearly eight thousand Africans from the western and southern parts of the continent in the mid-1600s.

From "The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science" by Joyce Sidman