as in substituting
to serve as a replacement usually for a time only
the weekend anchor is subbing for the station's main anchor all this week she subbed for middle school teachers in the district as needed
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Recent Examples of subbing
With the top offense and defense mostly playing against the second units — with many players subbing in and out of the latter — McCarthy was 7 for 7 with completions to four different receivers on the first drive, and completed three touchdown passes on a late red zone drill.
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John Shipley, Twin Cities, 20 Aug. 2025
Fermin will serve as the nine-hole hitter, subbing in for Díaz in the only variation from Friday’s lineup.
—Jeff Sanders, San Diego Union-Tribune, 9 Aug. 2025
Making healthy swaps where possible (subbing a baked potato for French fries is one good example).
—Sarah Garone, Health, 8 Aug. 2025
John Shipley, Twin Cities, 20 Aug. 2025
Fermin will serve as the nine-hole hitter, subbing in for Díaz in the only variation from Friday’s lineup.
—Jeff Sanders, San Diego Union-Tribune, 9 Aug. 2025
Making healthy swaps where possible (subbing a baked potato for French fries is one good example).
—Sarah Garone, Health, 8 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for subbing
substituting
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When making the switch to a plant-forward diet, Moon advised easing into it with small changes such as adding leafy greens to smoothies, using tofu in a grain bowl, and substituting animal fats for olive oil.—
Sarah Garone,
Health,
27 Aug. 2025
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The value is not in substituting one expert for another, or in outsourcing fully to the machine, or indeed in presuming the human expertise will always be superior, but in leveraging human and rapidly-evolving machine capabilities to achieve best results.—
David Autor,
The Atlantic,
24 Aug. 2025
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“Subbing.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/subbing. Accessed 9 Sep. 2025.
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