Example Sentences

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One centered on the precarity and dispensability of our own jobs.

From Slate • Sep. 6, 2022

We read varied but converging accounts that speak to the seeming dispensability of the elderly.

From Washington Post • Sep. 29, 2021

It firmly reminds you of humanity’s essential dispensability even as it opens you to your own vastness.

From The Guardian • May 25, 2018

Q. Talk more about this notion of dispensability.

From New York Times • Mar. 20, 2010