stand-in
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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
Gray regularly mines his commercial archive for images of entertainers, though he frequently presents them with their faces obscured, as a stand-in for larger ideas.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 20, 2026
One notable difference is that Hemingway’s stand-in has a permanent war wound.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026
The monal, researchers say, can be seen as a stand-in for the health of a fragile Himalayan ecosystem pushed to a tipping point due to unregulated tourism and heavy urbanisation.
From BBC ● Oct. 6, 2026
I’ll never have with him what I had with Jesse—I doubt I’ll have that again With anyone—but I want to be more than Marcus’s stand-in.
From "We Are the Ants" by Shaun David Hutchinson
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