expendable
Example Sentences
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"Punters don't have the expendable income they once had," he says.
From BBC • Apr. 24, 2026
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
The people in stories like these are designed to be expendable through the film’s ensuing events, fodder for the chills and thrills.
From Salon • Jan. 31, 2026
They were stowaways now, and stowaways were expendable.
From "The Reader" by Traci Chee
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Power Suffix: -able
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