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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
Noun
hired him at the last minute as a stand-in for the person who quit
Verb
she will be standing in for the regular teacher for a week
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Felicia Feaster, AJC.com, 30 Jan. 2026
Walker died in November 2013 while Furious 7 was still in production, and his character’s scenes were completed through CGI, archival footage and the use of brothers Caleb and Cody Walker as stand-ins.
—Ryan Gajewski, HollywoodReporter, 30 Jan. 2026
Gabrielle Starr, Boston Herald, 12 Jan. 2026
That leaves Josh Allen as arguably the best quarterback standing in the AFC.
—Jacob Camenker, USA Today, 11 Jan. 2026
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Noun
For Robell Awake, the chair is a meaning-laden object, symbolic of rest, a stand-in for the human body, a reflection of historical power dynamics.
—Felicia Feaster, AJC.com, 30 Jan. 2026
Walker died in November 2013 while Furious 7 was still in production, and his character’s scenes were completed through CGI, archival footage and the use of brothers Caleb and Cody Walker as stand-ins.
—Ryan Gajewski, HollywoodReporter, 30 Jan. 2026
Verb
The present-day Red Sox are on the other side of that rebuild, and have no legs on which to stand in this entirely avoidable calamity of losing both Devers and Bregman.
—Gabrielle Starr, Boston Herald, 12 Jan. 2026
That leaves Josh Allen as arguably the best quarterback standing in the AFC.
—Jacob Camenker, USA Today, 11 Jan. 2026
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“Stand-in.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/stand-in. Accessed 1 Feb. 2026.
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