- present tense form of substitute (3rd person singular).
- plural of substitute.
substitutes
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“The market is betting that Jensen’s exit forces China to go it alone sooner, which helps the companies selling substitutes and hurts the ones that need top-tier compute today,” Burke said.
From MarketWatch ● Nov. 13, 2026
Right-back continues to be the main worry for Pocognoli, with Celtic's Colby Donovan the one regular starter and with Aaron Hickey and Nathan Patterson used mainly as substitutes for Brentford and Torino, respectively.
From BBC ● Nov. 2, 2026
Other companies are scaling up processes for roasting or fermenting agricultural waste products, to make them good-enough substitutes for the primary ingredients in chocolate.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 30, 2026
But as the world gets warmer and more subject to extreme weather, chocolate substitutes will gain ground.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 30, 2026
Instead they were usually relegated to indoor rowing tanks, poor substitutes for the real thing.
From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown
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