substance
Example Sentences
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“I have been tested my entire career, including eight times last season alone, and have never tested positive. I would never willingly take a banned substance, but I take full responsibility and accept MLB’s decision.”
From Los Angeles Times
When contradictions pile up, they are chalked up to style rather than substance.
From Salon
On one residential street, two machines about 20 yards apart are spattered with a bright white substance.
From BBC
“Not as just supported on paper, but that it’s supported in substance, too.”
Back in the 1990s, chemists invented a weird substance called a metal-organic framework.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
