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substitutes

noun as in second string

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Teachers, who don’t always qualify for state disability or pay during leave through the Family and Medical Leave Act, are instead expected to exhaust sick days, pay for their own substitutes, return to work before they’re fully healed or time our births with summer vacation.

Balancing the absences these appointments required with the needs of my students and the demands of creating plans for substitutes quickly became unmanageable.

Traditional coffee substitutes have a reputation for not tasting much like coffee and are usually caffeine-free.

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Unlike Sporting’s array of substitutes, Amorim didn’t race out of the dugout when his side scored their fourth.

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Neither John Stones nor Ruben Dias made the trip, while Nathan Ake remained on the substitutes bench throughout.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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