backup
Example Sentences
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Porth was the backup last season to then senior Ben Forte, whom he called a “good mentor.”
From Los Angeles Times
He put in backup guard Jamar Brown and took him out after Brown gave up a basket and fumbled a pass out of bounds for a turnover.
From Los Angeles Times
The report said that domestic Chinese GPUs would likely move from being “strategic backups” to “core pillars” of China’s AI industry over the next three to five years.
It was a backup plan for a chaotic system, not an example of bureaucratic overreach.
From MarketWatch
Some have proposed either requiring or encouraging data centers to stop using it when there is a risk of blackouts, either by powering down or switching to backup electricity supplies.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
