as in exchangeable
capable of being substituted in place of one another
the concept of interchangeable parts revolutionized the mass production of manufactured goods
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Recent Examples of interchangeable
Artists are not interchangeable assets.
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Hattie Lindert, Pitchfork, 6 Feb. 2026
Bottles are safe, minimal, interchangeable — optimized to photograph well and be forgotten.
—Sudhir Gupta, Rolling Stone, 4 Feb. 2026
With 30 points of articulation, plus his signature Power Sword and interchangeable hands, it’s built for dynamic posing and display.
—Gerrad Hall, Entertainment Weekly, 29 Jan. 2026
Treat nonprofits as long-term partners in advancing public priorities—not as interchangeable vendors at the end of the line.
—Cat Ward, Forbes.com, 29 Jan. 2026
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Hattie Lindert, Pitchfork, 6 Feb. 2026
Bottles are safe, minimal, interchangeable — optimized to photograph well and be forgotten.
—Sudhir Gupta, Rolling Stone, 4 Feb. 2026
With 30 points of articulation, plus his signature Power Sword and interchangeable hands, it’s built for dynamic posing and display.
—Gerrad Hall, Entertainment Weekly, 29 Jan. 2026
Treat nonprofits as long-term partners in advancing public priorities—not as interchangeable vendors at the end of the line.
—Cat Ward, Forbes.com, 29 Jan. 2026
See All Example Sentences for interchangeable
Recent Examples of Synonyms for interchangeable
Adjective
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Also like metrics, these goals are simple, exchangeable, and mostly easy to communicate.—
Big Think,
Big Think,
20 Feb. 2026
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These options include simply selling their position through open-market sales, an exchange offer or a mandatory exchangeable bond, with proceeds potentially funding a large share buyback, which would be highly accretive to Fluor's EPS, especially at its currently depressed valuation.—
Kenneth Squire,
CNBC,
25 Oct. 2025
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
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“Interchangeable.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/interchangeable. Accessed 23 Feb. 2026.
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