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: someone employed to occupy an actor's place while lights and camera are readied
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Examples of stand-in in a Sentence
Verb
she will be standing in for the regular teacher for a week
Recent Examples on the Web
Philip Elliott, TIME, 12 Apr. 2024
Tupperware became such a dominant domestic force that its brand name, like Band-Aid and Kleenex, is often still used as a stand-in for plastic food-storage containers of any type or brand.
—Amanda Mull, The Atlantic, 12 Apr. 2024
In 2023, more than 23% of Russell 3000 companies (an index that is often used as a stand-in for the entire US market) disclosed shareholder activism as a risk in their annual reporting, up from about 21% a year prior.
—Nicole Goodkind, CNN, 9 Apr. 2024
Lynch also returned for the resurgence of the iconic Starz series Party Down, and received another Emmy nomination for playing Steve Martin’s character’s stand-in in Hulu’s Only Murders in the Building.
—EW.com, 7 Apr. 2024
Camilla carried out the ritual, in one of her most conspicuous appearances as a stand-in.
—Mark Landler, New York Times, 31 Mar. 2024
So the researchers found stand-ins at the Smithsonian.
—Lila Seidman, Los Angeles Times, 29 Mar. 2024
More recently, he’s been a stand-in for the nuclear disaster at Fukushima, and served as a warning against mankind’s destruction of the natural world.
—Katie Rife, EW.com, 28 Mar. 2024
The locations are stand-ins for Brooklyn, New York, and Washington D.C., all key places in the life of Chisholm, the first Black woman elected to Congress.
—Sharon Coolidge, The Enquirer, 21 Mar. 2024
Tony Romm, Washington Post, 9 Apr. 2024
Per the statement, two police officers were standing in front of the bar at the time of the incident, leading to his arrest.
—Sadie Bell, Peoplemag, 8 Apr. 2024
After going over some adjustments to the plan, Perun turned to a thirty-five-year-old junior lieutenant who stood in front of the interactive panel, peering at the map through prescription ballistic glasses.
—Luke Mogelson, The New Yorker, 8 Apr. 2024
The senators all stand in unison and raise their right hand.
—Allison Pecorin, ABC News, 8 Apr. 2024
Alabama Crimson Tide, making a first appearance at the Final Four stage, stand in UConn’s way.
—Ben Morse, CNN, 6 Apr. 2024
As David Baron, author of the 2017 book American Eclipse, told NPR, standing in that kind of darkness is a highly emotional, full-sensory experience.
—Vanessa Romo, NPR, 6 Apr. 2024
Andrew Morton stood in the sun on the smokestacks of a blast furnace the day the Francis Scott Key Bridge opened on March 23, 1977, watching the first cars cross the bridge.
—Sophie Hills, The Christian Science Monitor, 5 Apr. 2024
When the Department of Administration announced the sale there was little standing in the way of the developers’ plans to redevelop the mostly vacant property into over 2,000 homes and about 150,000 square feet of commercial space.
—Nick Rosenberger, Idaho Statesman, 4 Apr. 2024
Noun
Colleges are a convenient and tangible stand-in for what his allies have smeared as wokeism.
—Philip Elliott, TIME, 12 Apr. 2024
Tupperware became such a dominant domestic force that its brand name, like Band-Aid and Kleenex, is often still used as a stand-in for plastic food-storage containers of any type or brand.
—Amanda Mull, The Atlantic, 12 Apr. 2024
In 2023, more than 23% of Russell 3000 companies (an index that is often used as a stand-in for the entire US market) disclosed shareholder activism as a risk in their annual reporting, up from about 21% a year prior.
—Nicole Goodkind, CNN, 9 Apr. 2024
Lynch also returned for the resurgence of the iconic Starz series Party Down, and received another Emmy nomination for playing Steve Martin’s character’s stand-in in Hulu’s Only Murders in the Building.
—EW.com, 7 Apr. 2024
Camilla carried out the ritual, in one of her most conspicuous appearances as a stand-in.
—Mark Landler, New York Times, 31 Mar. 2024
So the researchers found stand-ins at the Smithsonian.
—Lila Seidman, Los Angeles Times, 29 Mar. 2024
More recently, he’s been a stand-in for the nuclear disaster at Fukushima, and served as a warning against mankind’s destruction of the natural world.
—Katie Rife, EW.com, 28 Mar. 2024
The locations are stand-ins for Brooklyn, New York, and Washington D.C., all key places in the life of Chisholm, the first Black woman elected to Congress.
—Sharon Coolidge, The Enquirer, 21 Mar. 2024
Verb
But the activity has stood in stark contrast with the delays on Capitol Hill, where lawmakers for years have failed to deliver on Biden’s requests, leaving federal watchdogs underfunded.
—Tony Romm, Washington Post, 9 Apr. 2024
Per the statement, two police officers were standing in front of the bar at the time of the incident, leading to his arrest.
—Sadie Bell, Peoplemag, 8 Apr. 2024
After going over some adjustments to the plan, Perun turned to a thirty-five-year-old junior lieutenant who stood in front of the interactive panel, peering at the map through prescription ballistic glasses.
—Luke Mogelson, The New Yorker, 8 Apr. 2024
The senators all stand in unison and raise their right hand.
—Allison Pecorin, ABC News, 8 Apr. 2024
Alabama Crimson Tide, making a first appearance at the Final Four stage, stand in UConn’s way.
—Ben Morse, CNN, 6 Apr. 2024
As David Baron, author of the 2017 book American Eclipse, told NPR, standing in that kind of darkness is a highly emotional, full-sensory experience.
—Vanessa Romo, NPR, 6 Apr. 2024
Andrew Morton stood in the sun on the smokestacks of a blast furnace the day the Francis Scott Key Bridge opened on March 23, 1977, watching the first cars cross the bridge.
—Sophie Hills, The Christian Science Monitor, 5 Apr. 2024
When the Department of Administration announced the sale there was little standing in the way of the developers’ plans to redevelop the mostly vacant property into over 2,000 homes and about 150,000 square feet of commercial space.
—Nick Rosenberger, Idaho Statesman, 4 Apr. 2024
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stand-in
1 of 2 nounˈstan-ˌdin
1
: someone employed to occupy an actor's place while lights and camera are readied
stand in
2 of 2 verb(ˈ)stan-ˈdin
: to act as a stand-in
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