substance
Example Sentences
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But “By Design” isn’t mere style over substance.
From Salon • Jun. 10, 2026
She described her as "a woman of action, vision and real substance".
From BBC • Jun. 8, 2026
What kind of thing is it — is space-time structure, substance or metaphor?
From Science Daily • Jun. 8, 2026
Within hours of carrying the first telegram across the English Channel in 1850, the earliest “submarine telegraph”—27 miles of copper wire wrapped in a rubbery substance called gutta percha—was broken by a fishing trawler.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 4, 2026
The body of a gebbeth has been drained of true substance and is something like a shell or a vapor in the form of a man, an unreal flesh clothing the shadow which is real.
From "A Wizard of Earthsea" by Ursula K. Le Guin
Vocabulary lists containing substance
"Black Panther" Lingo
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"The Declaration of Independence," Vocabulary from the historical document
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