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Computers have made typewriters dispensable.
Do you consider any of the staff to be dispensable?
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Photography helped normalize lynching in the eyes of white audiences: these extrajudicial acts were captured by government officials and published without shame, as though there was no debate on who was dispensable.
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Emmanuel Iduma, ARTnews.com, 16 Sep. 2024
Once useful anti-Communist strongmen became dispensable.
—Ian Buruma, The New Yorker, 24 June 2024
The Yankees needed to make space in their bullpen with Nick Burdi returning from a hip injury prior to Friday’s series opener against the Rays, but Michael Tonkin seemed like the most dispensable choice.
—Gary Phillips, New York Daily News, 10 May 2024
Some see this as a step toward eventually allowing interstate commerce, which would lead to consolidation across the industry and make border dispensaries dispensable.
—Simon Montlake, The Christian Science Monitor, 23 Jan. 2024
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Emmanuel Iduma, ARTnews.com, 16 Sep. 2024
Once useful anti-Communist strongmen became dispensable.
—Ian Buruma, The New Yorker, 24 June 2024
The Yankees needed to make space in their bullpen with Nick Burdi returning from a hip injury prior to Friday’s series opener against the Rays, but Michael Tonkin seemed like the most dispensable choice.
—Gary Phillips, New York Daily News, 10 May 2024
Some see this as a step toward eventually allowing interstate commerce, which would lead to consolidation across the industry and make border dispensaries dispensable.
—Simon Montlake, The Christian Science Monitor, 23 Jan. 2024
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“Dispensable.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/dispensable. Accessed 22 Nov. 2024.
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