expendable
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A training exercise in Australia offers a window into how the Marines plan to use small, expendable drones in the field.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 5, 2026
Their models project a reusable payload of about 115 tonnes to low Earth orbit, with as much as 188 tonnes possible in an expendable configuration.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 11, 2026
Rockets are typically considered expendable - their various segments being discarded and destroyed during ascent - which makes launching spacecraft expensive.
From BBC ● Jul. 10, 2026
But it became obvious that he was expendable as the starting center once the Lakers acquired 24-year-old center Walker Kessler from the Utah Jazz in a sign-and-trade deal worth four years and $130 million.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 3, 2026
But the space suits have to be portable, so they use a simple chemical absorption process with expendable filters.
From "The Martian" by Andy Weir
Vocabulary lists containing expendable
Power Suffix: -able
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