Definitions
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- adjective not suitable to be expended
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Examples
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Whether it be a primate or a sociopath, the real question is this: how did we let one company become so crucially unexpendable that our economy teeters on its very existence?
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Whether it be a primate or a sociopath, the real question is this: how did we let one company become so crucially unexpendable that our economy teeters on its very existence?
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There was no good reason why the Traveler should send a boat and three highly unexpendable humans down to look at its lifelessness.
Explorations ANDERSON, Poul 1981
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But nature sustained by unexpendable forces must abide.
Recreations in Astronomy With Directions for Practical Experiments and Telescopic Work Henry White Warren 1871
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Nature filled with unexpendable forces continues in form.
Recreations in Astronomy With Directions for Practical Experiments and Telescopic Work Henry White Warren 1871
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Sylvester Stallone pursued by Brazilian company for unexpendable debts star could face a £1. 36m lawsuit brought by O2, his partners on The Expendables production, his latest action outing Sylvester
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And a lot of what we do is done, subconsciously, indirectly, to avoid the thought of death, or to make ourselves so unexpendable through our accomplishments that death will hesitate to take us, or, when the scimitar finally falls, to insure that we 'live on" in the memory of the lucky ones still kicking.
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