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• a  not to be dispensed with; essential
  foods indispensable to good nutrition
• s  absolutely necessary; vitally necessary
  an indispensable worker
• s  unavoidable
  the routine but indispensable ceremonies of state

• Another indispensable site owned by the Google borg, though the bulk of its content cute cats, jiggling body parts and stupid human tricks is plenty dispensable.
• Who knew girls would find them fun, indispensable, cute? "These girls come up with new ways of using products, totally separate from what the manufacturers intended.
• I'll conclude with a summing up from the indispensable Ian Shepherdson of High Frequency Economics: In short, labor market is still terrible; don't be swayed by small unemp rise.

• essential

• dispensable

News & Articles

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• US: No plans to end broad surveillance program
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Obama administration is weighing whether to charge a government contractor with leaking classified government secrets while it defends a much-criticized National Security Agency surveillance program as an indispensable tool for protecting Americans from terrorists.
  June 11, 2013 - Associated Press via Yahoo! News
• Printed letters, June 12, 2013
  In his May 30 column, Josh Penry called Glen Canyon Dam “indispensable.” A more appropriate term is “obsolete.”
  June 11, 2013 - The Daily Sentinel
• Message from the Governor General of Canada on the Occasion of National Public Service Week
  The public service is an indispensable part of any modern nation-state, and Canadians are fortunate to have one of the best in the world. This year's National Public Service Week gives us the opportunity ...
  June 9, 2013 - Marketwired via Yahoo! Finance

Quotes

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• Barack Obama in AFP
  This new, legally binding agreement reflects significant additional data privacy safeguards but still retains the effectiveness and integrity of this indispensable counterterrorism program,he added.
• Alan Greenspan in ABC News
  No person in that institution is indispensable, but Ted Kennedy comes as close to being indispensable as any individual I've ever known in the Senate because he had a unique way of sitting down with the parties at a table and making the right... John McCain http://www.google.com/url?q=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_McCain&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNEhauRSvpu74c5JI21AhXVu-x_kmQ ABC News http://www.google.com/url?q=http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/story%3Fid%3D8393918&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNHCT2n_ZjNqrp3A5wWhN9rvxSnFMA Aug 23, 2009 51109 68717 indispensable Whatever their publicized angst over Saddam Hussein's 'weapons of mass destruction,' American and British authorities were also concerned about violence in an area that harbors a resource indispensable for the functioning of the world economy,"...