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Meanings of dispensable in English

Portuguese
dispensável

Capable of being dispensed with or done without.

Related terms
dispensável

Able to be done without.

Usage of dispensable in English
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Lastly, we found that CHD4 is dispensable for normal human astrocyte survival.
Pubmed
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Our results demonstrate that HIF1a is dispensable during embryonic and fetal myogenesis.
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They have been passed by enough younger players to suddenly be dispensable.
The Irish Times
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Recent studies suggest that inhibition of caspase-3 is dispensable for its anti-apoptotic effects.
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Objection 1: It would seem that the precepts of the decalogue are dispensable.
Summa Theologica, Part I-II (Pars Prima Secundae) / From the Com...
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A perfectly nice collection for completists, but a dispensable one for the uninitiated.
The Irish Times
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Some took to dropping their heavier and more dispensable possessions over the partition.
Zone Policeman 88; a close range study of the Panama canal and i...
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RALA is dispensable for survival, but is required for anchorage-independent proliferation.
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C-NHEJ is also dispensable for the fusion of naturally shortened telomeres.
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Together, our results demonstrate that mouse TrpC3 is dispensable for β-alanine-induced acute itch.
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The IRES was dispensable for both negative- and positive-strand RNA syntheses.
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Substantial portions of conserved sequence are dispensable, indicating the presence of sequence redundancy.
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These dramatic motions are dispensable for homologous pairing and continue until synapsis is completed.
Pubmed
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The people were dispensable in the eyes of state officials.
Ebony
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By the time we crawled into sleeping-bags, everything dispensable was piled alongside the depot-flag.
The Home of the Blizzard / Being the Story of the Australasian A...
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While evidently artificial and dispensable, these latter unities conduce to clear and concise treatment.
Elementary Guide to Literary Criticism
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Dispensable through the time
Dispensable across language varieties
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