expendable
Example Sentences
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The concept combines the reusable winged booster from DLR's long running SpaceLiner program with an expendable upper stage.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 11, 2026
It is certainly a dramatic transformation away from expensive big-ticket items like destroyers, towards large numbers of much cheaper and more expendable weapons.
From BBC ● Jun. 30, 2026
But Golden State was deep at the wing position, making Martin expendable with its other positional needs.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 10, 2026
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
If they should get into a tight corner, Ragear would serve as an expendable fool.
From "Redwall" by Brian Jacques
Vocabulary lists containing expendable
Power Suffix: -able
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