stand-in
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She amounts to a stand-in for people who use technology to wall themselves off from everyone else, disappear into their screens, and grow increasingly skittish about real human contact.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 24, 2026
Unlike Alice, Bryan is the audience stand-in: the average guy who responds to a mind-boggling, impossible situation as clumsily as you or I might.
From Salon ● Sep. 23, 2026
“It’s been one thing after the other: The pandemic, the strikes and then it was the fires,” said Wood, who has worked as a stand-in for Eva Longoria and Salma Hayek.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 14, 2026
The digital bank posted on X, external it had "identified some issues" and activated a stand-in backup service which meant users could still make transactions like card payments and sending and receiving bank transfers.
From BBC ● Aug. 19, 2026
She was heartbroken for someone else, and I was merely a stand-in for my grandfather.
From "Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children" by Ransom Riggs
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