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

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

Despite his religious stature, Khamenei has increasingly become politically expendable, analysts say.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 17, 2026

Stoke Space plans to launch an expendable rocket next year to collect data for its push for reusable vehicles, while Relativity Space wants to test its medium-to-heavy lift, reusable rocket in late 2026.

From MarketWatch • Dec. 30, 2025

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