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indispensable

[in-di-spen-suh-buhl] / ˌɪn dɪˈspɛn sə bəl /


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The final subscription weekend concerts featured two large-scale works for the orchestra and an indispensable Los Angeles Master Chorale.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 9, 2026

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

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

And yet, five years on, China has repositioned itself as an indispensable centre of global diplomacy and trade.

From BBC • May 20, 2026

Those cases, initially so puzzling to us moderns accustomed to viewing writing as indispensable to a complex society, included one of the world’s largest empires as of A.D.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond




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