dispensible
Americanadjective
Other Word Forms
- nondispensible adjective
Example Sentences
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At this age, Mindell says, parents can start having conversations about the fact that sleep isn’t dispensible—in fact, it’s a basic health need, “just like you need to eat your vegetables.”
From Time
“We want to make ourselves dispensible so we can scale somewhere else,” he says.
From Forbes
Education is not a dispensible luxury.
From Scientific American
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From Washington Post
So why are these services considered dispensible?
From The Guardian
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