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  • verb Present participle of substitute.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun working as a substitute for someone who is ill or on leave of absence

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Examples

  • Its name is seen as a play on Google's Chinese name "Gu Ge," substituting "jie," the Chinese word for older sister, for "ge," which means older brother.

    The Globe and Mail - Technology RSS feed 2010

  • I am fairly indifferent in substituting one sales tax for another, and would support this shift, particularly if it heads of much more expensive and dangerous legislation.

    Coyote Blog » Blog Archive » My Climate Plan 2009

  • Of course there are many possible alternative histories and the history that actually happened is the important version, as long as the historical revisionists are prevented in substituting politically correct versions of the history intended to make the deeds of survivors more palatable to their descendants.

    The James Rifle 2009

  • Of course there are many possible alternative histories and the history that actually happened is the important version, as long as the historical revisionists are prevented in substituting politically correct versions of the history intended to make the deeds of survivors more palatable to their descendants.

    The James Rifle 2009

  • "Koreans have taken to jokingly calling the side dish" geum-chi, "substituting in the Korean word for gold," CNN reports.

    Kimchi shortage: Cabbage crisis of national concern to South Korea Melissa Bell 2010

  • Of course there are many possible alternative histories and the history that actually happened is the important version, as long as the historical revisionists are prevented in substituting politically correct versions of the history intended to make the deeds of survivors more palatable to their descendants.

    The James Rifle 2009

  • I did all the same things, but I guess in substituting American brands something went just a little bit wrong.

    For some reason there were a buttload of books with unicorns on the cover. karenhealey 2010

  • Of course there are many possible alternative histories and the history that actually happened is the important version, as long as the historical revisionists are prevented in substituting politically correct versions of the history intended to make the deeds of survivors more palatable to their descendants.

    The James Rifle 2009

  • Forty calls to teachers who had narrowly failed, to ask if they would be interested in substituting, yielded only two yeses.

    Reading, Writing, Resurrection 2007

  • Forty calls to teachers who had narrowly failed, to ask if they would be interested in substituting, yielded only two yeses.

    Reading, Writing, Resurrection 2007

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