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replacement

[ri-plays-muhnt] / rɪˈpleɪs mənt /
NOUN
substitute
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And economists studying recent college graduates, the group supposedly first in line for replacement, found that their unemployment did not spike this summer.

From MarketWatch ● Nov. 3, 2026

Last week, the French government unveiled measures aimed at addressing some of the students' demands, including the replacement of the university admissions platform, which has been criticised for a lack of transparency.

From Barron's ● Nov. 3, 2026

Proposition 5 breaks up that process into two parts, prioritizing the voters’ right to oust an official before selecting a replacement.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 30, 2026

Even with replacement prop Mona Lisa Tupou being sent to the sin bin for a scrum infringement, their resistance and physicality stayed high and was rewarded with Zackary's late score.

From BBC ● Oct. 30, 2026

He was responsible for the replacement of burnt-out light bulbs, and for the cleanliness of the church, and the care of the Bibles, and the hymn-books, and the placards on the walls.

From "Go Tell It on the Mountain" by James Baldwin

The Big Bang presented an especially difficult engineering challenge because all three replacements had to happen simultaneously.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 3, 2026

Both Dalton and Basinski were able to get replacements at their local Apple Stores.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 27, 2026

For example, investors earlier this year broadly dumped software stocks as they worried that AI would be able to create inexpensive replacements for established software.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 27, 2026

Other delivery workers pointed out that the apps themselves sometimes recommend spectacularly inappropriate replacements, leaving shoppers to make sense of suggestions generated by software.

From Salon ● Oct. 25, 2026

Post-revolution, Iran had issued a new form of birth certificates, and we needed to secure replacements.

From "Americanized" by Sara Saedi


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