as in replacement
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Bench coach Don Kelly, a Pittsburgh-area native, would be the obvious replacement if the team chose to make a move.—
Ken Rosenthal,
New York Times,
14 Apr. 2025 -
The replacement must be a Republican who lives in the district.—
Mary Ramsey,
Charlotte Observer,
14 Apr. 2025
Noun
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This was next-gen performance born from racing and applied to touring, and it was all driven by a 260 hp, 3.3-liter Colombo V-12—with 275 cc of displacement per cylinder, hence the moniker—mated to the aforementioned five-speed manual transaxle.—
Viju Mathew,
Robb Report,
7 Apr. 2025
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In this powerful act of social and political resistance, this community centered nonprofit aims to fight off displacement and create opportunities for families and individuals to remain in their own neighborhoods.—
Alyza J Figueroa,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
3 Apr. 2025
Noun
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The four substitutions made by Simeone within the first 62 minutes showed the importance of rotating players in this run.—
Dermot Corrigan,
New York Times,
4 Apr. 2025
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Those who crave meat can improve their diet health score and reduce their dinner’s carbon footprint by over 50% by simple substitutions–like replacing beef with chicken in tacos or beef burgers with turkey burgers.—
Marianne Krasny,
Forbes.com,
31 Mar. 2025
Noun
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In the northern Sierra, there are currently no signs of deformation.—
Taylor Nicioli,
CNN Money,
18 Apr. 2025
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Because of the slope’s slow-moving collapse, scientists can study the landslide’s historical rates of deformation and see how those changes relate to the retreat of the Barry Arm glacier.—
Darren Orf,
Smithsonian Magazine,
18 Mar. 2025
Noun
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In the larger sense, along with truth comes a distortion of it, sometimes innocently and inadvertently but, more often than not, by design and for ulterior purposes.—
Eli Amdur,
Forbes.com,
13 Apr. 2025
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These distortions reduce a complex conflict to a morality play.—
U T Readers,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
10 Apr. 2025
Noun
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This realignment will catalyze the transmutation of negative thought patterns into a higher state of cognitive resonance, thereby enabling the manifestation of your innermost desires through the law of quantum attraction.—
Lance Eliot,
Forbes.com,
11 Apr. 2025
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Williams compares his project to sampling, riffing on DeCarava’s work as an act of transmutation.—
Sheldon Pearce,
The New Yorker,
22 Mar. 2025
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In 2007, New Order would split, though Hook would not return for their 2011 reformation, instead choosing to continue with his new band Peter Hook & The Light.—
Tyler Jenke,
Billboard,
18 Apr. 2025
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In their official reformation as the Hurt Syndicate in AEW in September and October of 2024, the group has been pushed strong.—
David Faris,
MSNBC Newsweek,
12 Apr. 2025
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There were some sizable revisions however, with both January and February seeing downward revisions totaling 48,000 fewer jobs than were originally reported.—
JJ Kinahan,
Forbes.com,
4 Apr. 2025
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Another late revision to the canon came in the form of a video shot by David LaChapelle that made the references more clear.—
Shana Naomi Krochmal,
Vulture,
4 Apr. 2025
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“Supplantation.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/supplantation. Accessed 24 Apr. 2025.
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