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Computers have made typewriters dispensable.
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And the hierarchy must consider who else is dispensable and at what price.
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Henry Flynn, Forbes.com, 16 May 2025
To become a machine, after all, is to become usable and, perhaps, dispensable.
—James Poniewozik, New York Times, 14 May 2025
To the Soviet state, the lives and the health of the local population in these remote areas were dispensable.
—Franziska Exeler, The Dial, 18 Feb. 2025
But last night’s halftime show painted Drake as a dispensable henchman and America as the ultimate adversary.
—Clover Hope, Pitchfork, 10 Feb. 2025
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Henry Flynn, Forbes.com, 16 May 2025
To become a machine, after all, is to become usable and, perhaps, dispensable.
—James Poniewozik, New York Times, 14 May 2025
To the Soviet state, the lives and the health of the local population in these remote areas were dispensable.
—Franziska Exeler, The Dial, 18 Feb. 2025
But last night’s halftime show painted Drake as a dispensable henchman and America as the ultimate adversary.
—Clover Hope, Pitchfork, 10 Feb. 2025
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“Dispensable.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/dispensable. Accessed 17 Sep. 2025.
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