expendability
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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She wrote her final paper on the expendability of the American worker.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 27, 2025
But that expendability is also the movie’s biggest issue.
From Salon • Jul. 25, 2025
He was aware of the environmental changes of 20th-century America, the loss of elms and chestnut trees, the depredations of industrialism and the cruel expendability of human beings caught in its maw.
From Washington Post • Jan. 1, 2020
The movie itself is about many things, from the brutal waste and expendability of life in contemporary China to the hard nocturnal shimmer of Dong Jinsong’s cinematography.
From Los Angeles Times • May 22, 2019
"Ivy, after ten years in Interstel, you should know that experience and expendability are synonymous."
From Attrition by Krenkel, Roy G.
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