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But he added: "Maybe he believes that statues and buildings and other things named for him will substitute for the kind of performance in office that makes you a memorable president."

From Barron's ● Aug. 25, 2026

Applicants will have to register with the secretary of state, document a threat within the past year and receive a substitute address that government agencies must generally accept.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 23, 2026

Burnham, Dahler told me on Newsnight, comes across like a "cool substitute teacher".

From BBC ● Aug. 20, 2026

He played his first match for the team on the road Saturday, joining as a substitute in the 65th minute of the 1-0 road loss to the Houston Dynamo.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 20, 2026

When you don’t have love, it can feel like a decent substitute.

From "Not Nothing" by Gayle Forman

In most cases, demographic reports have become substitutes for the harder work of investigating actual complaints.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 17, 2026

In a world where influencers warn of spiked cortisol levels and disrupted circadian rhythms, plenty of consumers are turning to prebiotic sodas, sugar-free beverages, and refreshers as substitutes.

From Slate ● Aug. 14, 2026

All three were substitutes in the Champions League final.

From BBC ● Aug. 12, 2026

The competitive threat posed by cheaper Chinese substitutes has once again assailed semiconductor stocks, leading to dramatic falls in some of the biggest memory chip makers in Asia on Tuesday.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 28, 2026

Mr. Kleiman has taken over Opekta, and Mr. Kugler, Gies & Co., the company dealing in spices and spice substitutes that was set up in 1941.

From "The Diary of a Young Girl" by Anne Frank

Former Tottenham and Nottingham Forest boss Postegoclou said Ronaldo, who spread his arms in a questioning gesture towards the bench when he was substituted, was taken off as part of a different tactical approach.

From BBC ● Aug. 26, 2026

Its header, though, showed it came from his address, with IRS.GOV substituted.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 13, 2026

Kane was only substituted twice, with six minutes left against Panama and one minute remaining in the last-16 tie with Mexico.

From BBC ● Jul. 18, 2026

This was the first time he had failed to score at the World Cup and, by the time he was substituted in extra-time, he had failed to register a single shot on target.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 12, 2026

Here is the play-by-play for the first two goals in the Memorial Cup final, only this time I’ve substituted the players’ birthdays for their names.

From "Outliers" by Malcolm Gladwell

“Nostalgia is basically substituting what you feel now for what actually happened then, right? I have no nostalgia for childhood summers because nothing happened.”

From Salon ● Jun. 24, 2026

In the criminal justice system, jurors are entitled to acquit defendants by deliberately rejecting evidence or refusing to apply the law, often by substituting their own sense of fairness—a concept known as jury nullification.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 20, 2026

Back in 2005, when Roberts rhapsodized about Indiana farmland and an endless horizon punctuated only by silos and barns, he was substituting a humble, real-life Midwest upbringing for his own.

From Slate ● May 7, 2026

With monthly updating of its weightings—the relative importance of different sectors—the index also better reflects shifts in consumer behavior, such as substituting pricier options for lower-cost alternatives.

From Barron's ● Apr. 22, 2026

Categories, functions, and meanings have to be ascertained empirically, by running little experiments such as substituting a phrase whose category you don’t know for one you do know and seeing whether the sentence still works.

From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker