stand-in
Example Sentences
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Baseball is an easy stand-in for America, and vice versa.
From Salon • Mar. 18, 2026
One man, first invited to serve as a stand-in for the narrator’s father, was asked instead to play the boy.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 12, 2026
Otherwise moral resolve becomes a poor stand-in for wisdom about what comes next.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 4, 2026
Petrecca had been a last-minute stand-in, because the original commentator was dropped for revealing a "sensational surprise" element of the ceremony by mistake.
From BBC • Feb. 19, 2026
On the night of the transaction, they leashed a stand-in timber wolf for Black Wing, first dyeing its left hind foot snow white, to look like Black Wing’s.
From "Nine Stories" by J. D. Salinger
