Example Sentences

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Their report cited “serious flaws” in financing, transparency and basic auditing, and said credits being issued for plastic incinerated in cement kilns were substituting one form of pollution for another.

From Seattle Times • Nov. 16, 2023

That’s likely because California companies were substituting nominees from the first group for the second to comply with the rule, she said.

From Seattle Times • May 5, 2022

“He didn’t get as much playing time with the way we were substituting and rolling guys through there,’’ Carroll said.

From Seattle Times • Dec. 4, 2021

The lawmakers also noted that Americans, many of whom are largely staying home because of the COVID-19 pandemic, were substituting Zoom calls for personal interaction and binging on Tiktok videos.

From Reuters • Jul. 30, 2020

Then it occurred to him that computers were substituting not only for human judgment but for human conscience as well.

From The Ambassador by Merwin, Sam