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expendable

[ik-spen-duh-buhl] / ɪkˈspɛn də bəl /


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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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