indispensable
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Coal has long been black gold for China's economy, and remains indispensable to keeping the lights on for its population of 1.4 billion people.
From BBC • May 31, 2026
By the time the trial came around, “Miss Becky,” as many called her, had become indispensable to the visiting media, cheerfully accommodating their many demands inside and outside the courtroom.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 24, 2026
Americans took copies with them from the original 13 states as the frontier moved westward; these, Mr. Auslin writes, became “an indispensable furnishing and handbook.”
From The Wall Street Journal • May 22, 2026
CNN's decision to keep reporters in Baghdad amid US bombing on the Iraqi capital cemented the network's reputation as an indispensable source of breaking news.
From Barron's • May 6, 2026
It would mean making some quite fundamental changes in our attitudes toward each other, if we were really to think of ourselves as indispensable elements of nature.
From "The Lives of a Cell" by Lewis Thomas
Vocabulary lists containing indispensable
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights (1948)
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Declaration of the Rights of Man (1789)
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