stand-in

The team proposed that cosmic dust could serve as a stand-in for satellite measurements of ice.

The joke obscured the psychological reality in which a political figure becomes a symbolic stand-in for threat and loss of control.

Both men are just in the door, while one is an interim stand-in, and there have been Old Firm disappointments in Europe - but is the dial showing signs of shifting domestically?

We wander back wet, down to Castillo Square, down to the ghosts of Bar Milano, a stand-in for Bar Torino, and Café Suizo, where the fiesta unravels in insults, a love polygon and fisticuffs.

In many ways, Robert is a stand-in for the many soft-spoken, working-class men who contributed their small part to a project much larger than themselves.