as in to substitute
to serve as a replacement usually for a time only
she will be standing in for the regular teacher for a week
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as in substitute
a person or thing that takes the place of another
hired him at the last minute as a stand-in for the person who quit
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Recent Examples of stand in
Antonia Hitchens, New Yorker, 15 June 2025
As the judge imposed a four-year prison sentence, the former footballer standing in the dock bowed his head.
—Stuart James, New York Times, 6 June 2025
Christi Carras, Los Angeles Times, 10 June 2025
For younger generations, recession-proofing their budget has meant ditching a real therapist for a bot stand-in.
—Fiorella Valdesolo, Vogue, 10 June 2025
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Verb
Down the Mall, by the Ellipse, Trump took the podium and delivered the Oath of Enlistment to a group of soldiers who stood in front of the stage.
—Antonia Hitchens, New Yorker, 15 June 2025
As the judge imposed a four-year prison sentence, the former footballer standing in the dock bowed his head.
—Stuart James, New York Times, 6 June 2025
Noun
While the walkout persisted, video game performers weren’t allowed to provide any services — such as acting, singing, stunts, motion capture, background and stand-in work — to struck games.
—Christi Carras, Los Angeles Times, 10 June 2025
For younger generations, recession-proofing their budget has meant ditching a real therapist for a bot stand-in.
—Fiorella Valdesolo, Vogue, 10 June 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for stand in
Verb
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This article is for informational purposes only and does not substitute for professional medical advice.—
Malana VanTyler,
USA Today,
21 June 2025
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Instead of cinnamon and nutmeg, try apple pie spice, or substitute some of all of the cinnamon or nutmeg for ground cardamom.—
Lisa Cericola,
Southern Living,
20 June 2025
Noun
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However, there are free, open source alternatives like LibreOffice, Darktable (Adobe Lightroom replacement), and GIMP (Adobe Photoshop replacement).—
Luke Larsen,
Wired News,
15 June 2025
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To be at replacement levels, the birth rate would have to be a bit higher at 2.1.—
Alix Martichoux,
The Hill,
15 June 2025
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Where to watch How to Train Your Dragon: In theaters 03 of 06 DreamWorks Dragons (2012–2018) The DreamWorks Dragons series helps fill in the five-year gap between the first two big-screen features.—
Skyler Trepel,
EW.com,
13 June 2025
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Read More: How the Triassic Extinction Helped Dinosaurs Take Over the Planet Tracking Fossil Evolution with the TARDIS Because there were gaps in the archosauromorph fossil records, the research team had to think of a clever solution to fill in those gaps.—
Monica Cull,
Discover Magazine,
11 June 2025
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But hydrogen needs to be produced, stored, and delivered, and every step in that process consumes energy.—
Robert Rapier,
Forbes.com,
15 June 2025
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Sergey Stavisky, senior author of the paper on this tech that's set to appear in Nature, explained that this is a major step in that direction.—
Abhimanyu Ghoshal,
New Atlas,
14 June 2025
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Spalletti had Gravina’s gratitude for leaving his post-Napoli sabbatical to take over Italy in difficult circumstances following Roberto Mancini’s resignation to manage Saudi’s national team, and the Euros came less than a year later.—
James Horncastle,
New York Times,
20 June 2025
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The company says each body takes over 300 hours to create, with the metalwork shaped using traditional panel beating techniques.—
Alistair Charlton,
Forbes.com,
20 June 2025
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“Stand in.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/stand%20in. Accessed 26 Jun. 2025.
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