disposable
adjective
designed for or capable of being thrown away after being used or used up.
disposability
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a word derived from
disposable.
Example Sentences
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"It plays into features of the current dating culture, where we see this propensity towards disposability and a lack of exclusivity," she says.
From BBC ● Jul. 25, 2026
“The garbageman is the Sisyphus” of our wasteful society, where the “dream of disposability has turned into a nightmare.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 12, 2026
It would also require big changes from consumers, who have been trained for 70 years to expect disposability in just about every aspect of daily life.
From Salon ● May 2, 2024
The songs, with music by Adam Schlesinger and lyrics by Schlesinger and Silverman, have the cheesy irreverence and synth-y disposability of period television jingles — the period being the early 1980s.
From New York Times ● Jun. 7, 2022
Instead, they sequester themselves from real life, obsessing over the next game, worried about their disposability.
From Washington Post
