dispensable

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These are all dispensable ideas that the right has adjusted and readjusted to protect core principles.

From Salon

“I’m just used to being continually let down and feeling like my daughter is dispensable to other people.”

From Los Angeles Times

Speaking up for their more dispensable co-workers, the logic goes, would gain them little and put their own amicable relationship with management at risk.

From New York Times

Today, so-called nonregular employees make up around 37 percent of the country’s labor force, a permanent underclass of low-paid, dispensable workers, nearly 70 percent of whom are women.

From New York Times

The statement added that, for award organizers, “Black, brown, working class, disabled, queer bodies are desirable, quickly dispensable, but never sustainably cared for.”

From New York Times