substitution
Example Sentences
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In sudden-death overtime against Sweden in the quarterfinals, Hughes waved off a substitution just before burying the game-winner that kept his country’s medal dreams alive.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 3, 2026
Those people are spending money they likely would have spent in the city anyway, a principle economists call substitution.
From Salon • Apr. 30, 2026
It also can measure the limits of releases from strategic petroleum reserves, spare production capacity, freight constraints and refinery substitution, he said.
From MarketWatch • Mar. 24, 2026
Slower hiring might reflect substitution toward technology rather than demand increasing less rapidly.
From Barron's • Feb. 24, 2026
If you want to get really complicated, you can apply both transposition and substitution to the same message.
From "The Woman All Spies Fear" by Amy Butler Greenfield
Vocabulary lists containing substitution
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