substitutive

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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

"Gee, I've found a friend," said Oscar, who once confessed that his troubles revolved around "acute anxieties, ritualistic compulsions, substitutive obsessions and irrational hostilities."

From Time Magazine Archive

Luther may not have thought of this when he entered the cloister, but he rejoiced in this scheme of substitutive sanctity later.

From Luther Examined and Reexamined A Review of Catholic Criticism and a Plea for Revaluation by Dau, W. H. T. (William Herman Theodore)