as in exchangeable
capable of being substituted in place of one another
since fruits and vegetables are regarded as fungible in this diet, you are allowed a total of five servings of either or both
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Recent Examples of fungible
But as Sargeant argues, drawing on an essay by the conservative writer Felix James Miller, treating a husband as only a provider reduces him to a fungible funding source, rather than an integral part of a family with his own unique contributions to make.
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Anna Louie Sussman, The Atlantic, 7 Nov. 2025
Walz said most of the state’s money is not fungible and has been appropriated for other purposes.
—Mary Murphy, Twin Cities, 27 Oct. 2025
Unlike stocks, which are fungible, and can be traded and settled on any number of brokerages, contracts in prediction markets are proprietary, effectively creating a proverbial moat and locking users into the marketplace the markets were created on.
—Alicia Park, Forbes.com, 15 Sep. 2025
LLMs will be the new electrons — crucial but mostly fungible.
—Liz Hoffman, semafor.com, 21 Aug. 2025
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Anna Louie Sussman, The Atlantic, 7 Nov. 2025
Walz said most of the state’s money is not fungible and has been appropriated for other purposes.
—Mary Murphy, Twin Cities, 27 Oct. 2025
Unlike stocks, which are fungible, and can be traded and settled on any number of brokerages, contracts in prediction markets are proprietary, effectively creating a proverbial moat and locking users into the marketplace the markets were created on.
—Alicia Park, Forbes.com, 15 Sep. 2025
LLMs will be the new electrons — crucial but mostly fungible.
—Liz Hoffman, semafor.com, 21 Aug. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for fungible
Adjective
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Vouchers will be exchangeable for a laundry card preloaded with $8 in credit, which will cover two wash cycles at any temperature and three 10-minute drying cycles.—
Victoria Le,
Oc Register,
24 Feb. 2026
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Also like metrics, these goals are simple, exchangeable, and mostly easy to communicate.—
Big Think,
Big Think,
20 Feb. 2026
Adjective
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The article by Trammell and Patel has already received some pushback online, largely on the ground that its assumption that capital is perfectly substitutable for labor is unrealistic.—
John Cassidy,
New Yorker,
12 Jan. 2026
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Miller described this as a selective abundance approach, where people with means will spend abundantly on things that have special worth and save abundantly, i.e. trade down, in purchases that are substitutable or replaceable.—
Pamela N. Danziger,
Forbes.com,
19 June 2025
Adjective
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Let trends show up in small, interchangeable accents, rather than permanent features.—
Angelika Pokovba,
Martha Stewart,
21 Feb. 2026
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Duvets are the European version of the comforter but are primarily distinguished by their need for a cloth counterpart, an interchangeable cover.—
Miami Herald,
Miami Herald,
19 Feb. 2026
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“Fungible.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/fungible. Accessed 1 Mar. 2026.
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