expendable
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Their models project a reusable payload of about 115 tonnes to low Earth orbit, with as much as 188 tonnes possible in an expendable configuration.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 11, 2026
Rockets are typically considered expendable - their various segments being discarded and destroyed during ascent - which makes launching spacecraft expensive.
From BBC ● Jul. 10, 2026
Especially now, workers are better off at companies with track records of advancing their employees’ careers, rather than those treating workers as expendable, said Rajiv Chandrasekaran, a managing director at the Schultz Family Foundation.
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
Did it automatically, as if he was expendable.
From "The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War" by Michael Shaara
Vocabulary lists containing expendable
Power Suffix: -able
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