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substitutive

[suhb-sti-too-tiv, -tyoo-] / ˈsʌb stɪˌtu tɪv, -ˌtju- /




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Turley, the head of ChatGPT, used the word “substitutive,” according to the filing, and said the AI products “will get more and more substitutive as they get better.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 17, 2026

Researchers used both additive and substitutive experimental designs to separate the effects of goldfish from the effects associated with having more fish overall.

From Science Daily ● Jun. 26, 2026

The concern, I think I, and some other folks who watch this industry have, is that this type of automation is purely substitutive.

From The Verge ● Mar. 23, 2021

By contrast, performance-improving innovations either create few new jobs because they’re substitutive, or they destroy jobs through gains in productivity.

From Forbes ● Oct. 15, 2014

It is therefore inconceivable that the blood could receive its normal supply of adrenalin with an apathy of the degree seen in stupor unless some purely hypothetically substitutive excitant were found.

From Benign Stupors A Study of a New Manic-Depressive Reaction Type by John T. (John Thompson) MacCurdy




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