substitutive
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Researchers used both additive and substitutive experimental designs to separate the effects of goldfish from the effects associated with having more fish overall.
From Science Daily ● Jun. 26, 2026
The concern, I think I, and some other folks who watch this industry have, is that this type of automation is purely substitutive.
From The Verge ● Mar. 23, 2021
By contrast, performance-improving innovations either create few new jobs because they’re substitutive, or they destroy jobs through gains in productivity.
From Forbes ● Oct. 15, 2014
"Gee, I've found a friend," said Oscar, who once confessed that his troubles revolved around "acute anxieties, ritualistic compulsions, substitutive obsessions and irrational hostilities."
From Time Magazine Archive
The only course to be at all considered is a substitutive, not prohibitory one, giving opportunity for social intercourse under proper conditions.
From The Unfolding Life A Study of Development with Reference to Religious Training by Antoinette Abernethy Lamoreaux
