indispensable

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The Geneva Conventions governing the laws of war, agreed following World War II, prohibit destruction of "objects indispensable to the survival of the civilian population."

From Barron's • Apr. 2, 2026

"I fear German power less than I am beginning to fear German inactivity," he said, describing Germany as Europe's "indispensable nation".

From BBC • Mar. 27, 2026

“While GPUs handle the heavy mathematical lifting for AI, modern high-core-count CPUs are becoming indispensable for orchestration, data-management, and real-time inference tasks that GPUs cannot perform efficiently,” Lee wrote.

From MarketWatch • Mar. 20, 2026

Not to mention the intelligence capabilities indispensable for such an operation?

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 10, 2026

That does not mean that government security officials invariably found Lawrence cooperative, especially when their suspicions fell upon Rad Lab members he considered indispensable.

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik