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: someone employed to occupy an actor's place while lights and camera are readied
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Synonyms
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
Samanth Subramanian Vikas Adam Tanya Pérez Zachary Mouton, New York Times, 20 Apr. 2024
The Vermont governor stood in a spacious workshop outside Montpelier, the state capital, surrounded by wooden beams and workers wearing bright blue hard hats.
—Cooper Burton, ABC News, 18 Apr. 2024
An Israeli flag stands in a window in the Adams Morgan neighborhood of Washington, D.C.
—David Oliver, USA TODAY, 18 Apr. 2024
Beyond the murky status of libel laws at the time, an insurmountable problem stood in the way of the baron’s lawsuit: At the time, the increasingly popular book’s author was still anonymous.
—Rosemary Counter, Smithsonian Magazine, 17 Apr. 2024
Today, a restaurant called Harvey’s stands in Union Station’s Grand Hall, across the way from Pierpont’s.
—Jenna Thompson, Kansas City Star, 17 Apr. 2024
But now everyone is talking about the fact that people stood in line for hours.
—TIME, 17 Apr. 2024
The speeches continued while police stood in front of the entrance of the Claridge event space, letting people out but not in.
—Emily Rauhala, Washington Post, 16 Apr. 2024
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
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
April 20, 2024 Rahul Gandhi stood in a red Jeep, amid a churning crowd in Varanasi, trying to unseat the Indian government with a microphone in his hand.
—Samanth Subramanian Vikas Adam Tanya Pérez Zachary Mouton, New York Times, 20 Apr. 2024
The Vermont governor stood in a spacious workshop outside Montpelier, the state capital, surrounded by wooden beams and workers wearing bright blue hard hats.
—Cooper Burton, ABC News, 18 Apr. 2024
An Israeli flag stands in a window in the Adams Morgan neighborhood of Washington, D.C.
—David Oliver, USA TODAY, 18 Apr. 2024
Beyond the murky status of libel laws at the time, an insurmountable problem stood in the way of the baron’s lawsuit: At the time, the increasingly popular book’s author was still anonymous.
—Rosemary Counter, Smithsonian Magazine, 17 Apr. 2024
Today, a restaurant called Harvey’s stands in Union Station’s Grand Hall, across the way from Pierpont’s.
—Jenna Thompson, Kansas City Star, 17 Apr. 2024
But now everyone is talking about the fact that people stood in line for hours.
—TIME, 17 Apr. 2024
The speeches continued while police stood in front of the entrance of the Claridge event space, letting people out but not in.
—Emily Rauhala, Washington Post, 16 Apr. 2024
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
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“Stand-in.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/stand-in. Accessed 25 Apr. 2024.
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