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- adjective Alternative form of
dispensable .
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Examples
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Much like many people who think that History is dispensible.
Lighthouses, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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But non-economists seem to think it is dispensible as well.
Lighthouses, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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He could be squashed like a fat-fly by those that pay him if he somehow becomes dispensible.
Think Progress » Steele: ‘Trust Me, After Taxes, A Million Dollars Is Not A Lot Of Money’ 2010
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Franken will be a dispensible short term attack dog to be sacrificed.
Al Franken bravely goes after GOP *staffers*… - Moe_Lane’s blog - RedState 2009
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Part x may be dispensible for organism y but the presence of x and some favorable genomic circumstances may be evidence for front loading.
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At the time everyone was saying that Brown would become dispensible once the deed had been done.
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What it boils down to is that Jed Macosko convinced the game developer, Athony Pecorella, that they could claim that including evolution in the premise would be including abiogenesis, which everyone knows is speculative and therefore dispensible.
CellCraft, a subversive little game - The Panda's Thumb 2010
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Yes your bosses provide your pay check today but remember you are dispensible just like the rest of us.
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No one is going to prosecute anyone for this crime since the Jews are dispensible as far as the rest of the world is concerned, as dispensible as are the non-Muslim Darfurians, the non-Arab Kurds, the Christian Arabs of the Middle East et alii, et alii.
On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2009
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Do they only matter "if you can win" and the rest of the time they're negotiable or dispensible for political advantage?
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