substitutive

Example Sentences

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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

Following Stout, substitutive signs are characterized thus: "a word is an instrument for thinking about the meaning which it expresses; a substitutive sign is a means of not thinking about the meaning which it symbolizes."

From Creative Intelligence Essays in the Pragmatic Attitude by Bode, Boyd H.

The only course to be at all considered is a substitutive, not prohibitory one, giving opportunity for social intercourse under proper conditions.

From The Unfolding Life A Study of Development with Reference to Religious Training by Lamoreaux, Antoinette Abernethy