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a person or thing that takes the place of another
seeing that the starting quarterback was unable to play, the coach immediately called in his replacement
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Recent Examples of replacements
The manufacturers of almost all of them will provide repairs, replacements, or refunds.
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Adam Iscoe, The New Yorker, 23 Dec. 2024
Tesla’s service and collision centers are already overwhelmed with these modifications as well as other concerns, such as self-driving computer replacements in newer cars.
—Bojan Stojkovski, Interesting Engineering, 21 Dec. 2024
That includes benefit verification letters, Social Security card replacements and appeals processing.
—Benedict Cosgrove, Newsweek, 20 Dec. 2024
Most places around the country that saw their newspapers shutter still haven't gotten replacements.
—Axios, 20 Dec. 2024
While early imperial aristocrats saw provincials as subject nations with their own cultures, their working-class replacements considered Romans a single people and expected all to share the same values.
—Jeffrey E. Schulman / Made By History, TIME, 20 Dec. 2024
Over the past 14 years, 2021 had the lowest number of replacements at 197.
—Leslie Josephs, CNBC, 20 Dec. 2024
While most of the wide shots used Robles, Goldenberg chose which actor to focus on in the medium and tighter shots on a case-by-case basis, sometimes using digital head replacements to put Jerome’s head on Robles’ body.
—Jim Hemphill, IndieWire, 10 Dec. 2024
Almost every ingredients label includes chemicals, soy bean oil, sugar or sugar replacements like high-fructose corn syrup.
—Christopher O'Donnell, Orlando Sentinel, 10 Dec. 2024
Adam Iscoe, The New Yorker, 23 Dec. 2024
Tesla’s service and collision centers are already overwhelmed with these modifications as well as other concerns, such as self-driving computer replacements in newer cars.
—Bojan Stojkovski, Interesting Engineering, 21 Dec. 2024
That includes benefit verification letters, Social Security card replacements and appeals processing.
—Benedict Cosgrove, Newsweek, 20 Dec. 2024
Most places around the country that saw their newspapers shutter still haven't gotten replacements.
—Axios, 20 Dec. 2024
While early imperial aristocrats saw provincials as subject nations with their own cultures, their working-class replacements considered Romans a single people and expected all to share the same values.
—Jeffrey E. Schulman / Made By History, TIME, 20 Dec. 2024
Over the past 14 years, 2021 had the lowest number of replacements at 197.
—Leslie Josephs, CNBC, 20 Dec. 2024
While most of the wide shots used Robles, Goldenberg chose which actor to focus on in the medium and tighter shots on a case-by-case basis, sometimes using digital head replacements to put Jerome’s head on Robles’ body.
—Jim Hemphill, IndieWire, 10 Dec. 2024
Almost every ingredients label includes chemicals, soy bean oil, sugar or sugar replacements like high-fructose corn syrup.
—Christopher O'Donnell, Orlando Sentinel, 10 Dec. 2024
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“Replacements.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/replacements. Accessed 22 Jan. 2025.
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