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Example sentences for: substitutes

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In such a situation, description substitutes for opinionizing.
Popular history need not come at the expense of thoughtful reflection and serious research, but Johnson's zingers are too often substitutes for those qualities.
Second, there is the view that worksharing discounts are needed to make the postal service more competitive, thus helping to stave off threats from competing carriers and electronic substitutes.
As ever, artisans provide the bulk of the best buys, but it is worth bearing in mind that their hand-produced items can’t compete with the price of the mass-produced substitutes from the Far East.
"In all discussion of metaphor," writes H. W. Fowler in Modern English Usage , "it must be borne in mind that some metaphors are living, i.e., are offered and accepted with a consciousness of their nature as substitutes for their literal equivalents, while others are dead, i.e., have been so often used that speaker and hearer have ceased to be aware that the words used are not literal."