substitution

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The bank expects resilient demand and cash flow across the sector, supported by stimulus safeguarding local supply chains and acceleration of import substitution, to partially offset prolonged volatility risks.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 25, 2026

It also can measure the limits of releases from strategic petroleum reserves, spare production capacity, freight constraints and refinery substitution, he said.

From MarketWatch • Mar. 24, 2026

With the substitution exposed, Fox claimed the error was inadvertent.

From Salon • Mar. 9, 2026

Slower hiring might reflect substitution toward technology rather than demand increasing less rapidly.

From Barron's • Feb. 24, 2026

The substitution sounds wrong to Gogol, correct but off-key, the way it sounds when his parents speak English to him instead of Bengali.

From "The Namesake" by Jhumpa Lahiri