stand-in
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“I think about using poetry as a stand-in for arts and culture more generally to humanize bureaucratic spaces and create an experience for people that’s a little more personal.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 3, 2026
That’s not wrong; Romero’s 1968 benchmark established the modern cinematic zombie as a stand-in for mindless capitalist consumption.
From Salon ● Oct. 31, 2026
One notable difference is that Hemingway’s stand-in has a permanent war wound.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026
“It’s been one thing after the other: The pandemic, the strikes and then it was the fires,” said Wood, who has worked as a stand-in for Eva Longoria and Salma Hayek.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 14, 2026
On the night of the transaction, they leashed a stand-in timber wolf for Black Wing, first dyeing its left hind foot snow white, to look like Black Wing’s.
From "Nine Stories" by J. D. Salinger
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