expendability
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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But that expendability is also the movie’s biggest issue.
From Salon
Fox News wants hosts who will draw ratings but who won’t rock the boat; marquee talents who are nevertheless aware of their own expendability.
From Slate
In short, the film’s sobriety is a drag, offering the actors little room to add color, their characters’ moral disparities less interesting than the small details of corporate-controlled life — the crippling debt burdens, the expendability of the soldiers, the compulsory contraceptive device behind Hannah’s ear — scattered throughout the speeches.
From New York Times
There’s this feeling of expendability that artists get.
From New York Times
Expendability has become the custom as Tutberidze keeps developing more agile skaters at younger ages, pushing the sport to its physical brink.
From Washington Post
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