interchanging

verb

present participle of interchange
as in replacing
to put each of two or more things in the place of the other We interchanged the front tire with the rear tire.

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Recent Examples of interchanging In between them are interchanging layers of Wagyu sofrito, humming with annatto’s earthy, peppery bitterness, and Pecorino béchamel. — Jenn Harris, Los Angeles Times, 14 May 2026
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replacing
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  • The former mayor of Greater Manchester, in the northwest of England, Burnham will become the United Kingdom’s seventh prime minister in a decade on Monday after replacing Keir Starmer as leader of the ruling Labour Party.
    — Hanna Ziady, CNN Money, 18 July 2026
  • Architecture designed to break GPU cluster limits Biren believes the future of large-scale AI computing depends on replacing conventional electrical interconnects with optical technology.
    — Bojan Stojkovski, Interesting Engineering, 18 July 2026
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