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  • I became a serial substituter: property, children, work, raking the garden leaves kept the rage of failure at bay.

    The Body Hanif Kureishi 2004

  • I became a serial substituter: property, children, work, raking the garden leaves kept the rage of failure at bay.

    The Body Hanif Kureishi 2004

  • I became a serial substituter: property, children, work, raking the garden leaves kept the rage of failure at bay.

    The Body Hanif Kureishi 2004

  • Over time, they would come to transform the political landscape and turn the Mexican economy inside out, from import substituter to participant in continental free trade.

    THE COMMANDING HEIGHTS DANIEL YERGIN 1998

  • This fellow is known as the "Synonym Stammerer" and is usually a quick thinker and a ready "substituter-of-words."

    Stammering, Its Cause and Cure Benjamin Nathaniel Bogue

  • The answer in regard to exempt classes will apply here also, because in case of need both substitute and substituter are obliged to serve.

    Woman and the Republic — a Survey of the Woman-Suffrage Movement in the United States and a Discussion of the Claims and Arguments of Its Foremost Advocates Helen Kendrick Johnson 1880

  • political landscape and turn the Mexican economy inside out, from import substituter to participant in continental free trade.

    The Commanding Heights DANIEL YERGIN 1998

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