expendability
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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Their key advantages include their bigger visual range, maneuverability and expendability: If the mission fails, the loss is a craft worth thousands of dollars rather than a life.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 14, 2026
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
While extermination, dependency, and expendability have been the steady diet of these movies over the decades, American moviemakers have not remained totally stagnant in their treatment of the third world and its inhabitants.
From Salon • Aug. 17, 2019
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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