substituting
IPA: sˈʌbstɪtutɪŋ
noun
- working as a substitute for someone who is ill or on leave of absence
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Examples of "substituting" in Sentences
- I did all the same things, but I guess in substituting American brands something went just a little bit wrong.
- "Koreans have taken to jokingly calling the side dish" geum-chi, "substituting in the Korean word for gold," CNN reports.
- Forty calls to teachers who had narrowly failed, to ask if they would be interested in substituting, yielded only two yeses.
- Its name is seen as a play on Google's Chinese name "Gu Ge," substituting "jie," the Chinese word for older sister, for "ge," which means older brother.
- I am fairly indifferent in substituting one sales tax for another, and would support this shift, particularly if it heads of much more expensive and dangerous legislation.
- Of course there are many possible alternative histories and the history that actually happened is the important version, as long as the historical revisionists are prevented in substituting politically correct versions of the history intended to make the deeds of survivors more palatable to their descendants.
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