expendability
Americannoun
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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
But that expendability is also the movie’s biggest issue.
From Salon ● Jul. 25, 2025
There’s this feeling of expendability that artists get.
From New York Times ● Mar. 10, 2022
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
"Ivy, after ten years in Interstel, you should know that experience and expendability are synonymous."
From Attrition by Roy G. Krenkel
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