How To Use Stand-in In A Sentence
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A stand-in drummer bashes on a single snare and a pair of cymbals.
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I thought he was saying that the thing we call a spoon is a prop or stand-in for a specific bunch of communicative understandings.
The Forest for the Spoons
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Den wii came outside in our beeg citee, and stand-in onna kornur, dis mans popped out of restaurant and sez, Ladeez!
Pwning ur elders - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger?
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For instance, Mike Totten, speaking at the 2008 Winter Soldier hearings in Washington, D.C., discussed how the Army twisted the word "hadji," which means an Islamic religious pilgrim, into the "gook" stand-in of the Iraq war.
Robert Koehler: Holy War
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The rocket ship is made in three main sections. This is the top section, where the pilot will sit. Inside is a stand-in for the pilot's chair.
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Norton is covering for Chris Evans on his Breakfast Show for two weeks and has been blessed with something most stand-ins can only dream of: his own jingle, full of pizzazz and, crucially, his name boldly proclaimed.
Breakfast Show
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Big dicks can always shrivel into nubbins of insignificance, and as such they are obvious stand-up stand-ins for phallocentric patriarchy.
Rude Britannia: British Comic Art, at Tate Britain
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She had been a bit-part player in Rice Court's drama- a stand-in.
SPLITTING
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Not all figuration is metaphoric though; in metonymy, the process of interpretation is not based on resemblances but on other forms of association -- the association of a crown with a king, for example, such that we use the artefact as a metonymic stand-in for the person.
Archive 2008-08-01
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Edward CastronovaI thought he was saying that the thing we call a spoon is a prop or stand-in for a specific bunch of communicative understandings.
The Forest for the Spoons
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He received 2,000 fan letters a week and, when filming, had no less than 18 stand-ins lined up.
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In tests in genuine greenhouses (which may of course not be good stand-ins for Siberia or the North Slope) the researchers found that warming things up failed to evince the expected, extra CO2 from a faux-polar but non-permafrosted soil biome.
Knight Science Journalism Tracker
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An actress looking for work ends up as a stand-in goddess in a nazi Xenium plot.
Science Fiction, Fantasy, Horror: Not That Kind Of Girl - Trina Robbins
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The visitors' defence was finally breached when Stuart Airedrie's excellently flighted ball was dropped by the stand-in keeper and defender Jonathan Best was quickest to react and placed the ball in the bottom corner.
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He was a stand-in for my regular doctor.
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We need a woman President — and she would make an outstand-ing president of the United States!
Should AAUW Endorse Hillary? « AAUW Dialog
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the star had a stand-in for dangerous scenes
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This is partly because we still think of Tony Blair as the prime minister (and he is often on American television rather pretending he is still prime minister), and yet, confusingly, he isn't running, and partly because his stand-in, Gordon Brown, who is actually the prime minister, is a figure of almost incomprehensible dourness and turgidness.
Michael Wolff: We Don't Care About the British Election--but Some Pointers Anyway
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Phil also came up with extras, stand-ins and doubles for the movie Killing Me Softly, with Heather Graham, once again in a Lakeland location.
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The setting is Turaqistan, a fictional stand-in for Iraq where the troops and military might of a vast corporation called Tamerlane -- read Halliburton -- are engaged, Hauser tells us, in "the first war ever to be 100-per-cent outsourced to private enterprise.
Perfect Waves,
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I was driven, obsessed with Mother of whom Nicola was a clear reflection, a cherished stand-in.
A DEATH IN THE FAMILY
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The woman who, about half hour ago had been hard, stern and rather austere was now so offhand and casual that Miette suspected a stand-in had been found while she napped.
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Consider if the pig is a stand-in for someone who is greedy or "hoggish" -- and always consider if those negative traits might actually be shadow sides of your own psyche.
BellaOnline - The Voice of Women
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Perot claims he is serving as a stand-in for whomever the Reform Party nominates at its Labor Day convention.
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Pupils who are able to turn up for lessons face disruption as stand-in teachers are drafted in to provide cover for staff members who are not able to start work.
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Stand-ins for the Paramount movie logo, they represent, like the original, an idealised America: solid, strong, historic.
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Manchester United defender Rio Ferdinand will once again deputise for Terry as stand-in captain.
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Blanch was his stand-in model between sittings with his portrait subjects, including the queen.
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But stand-in skipper McAllister is confident that Leeds will bounce back in the style that made them champions last May.
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Stand-in examiners have been drafted in to supervise the 28 tests carried out each day at the centre.
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If you get sick, they cancel or the stand-in goes on and either way the punters ain't happy.
MR STARLIGHT
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Perot claims he is serving as a stand-in for whomever the Reform Party nominates at its Labor Day convention.
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But stand-in skipper McAllister is confident that Leeds will bounce back in the style that made them champions last May.
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Perot claims he is serving as a stand-in for whomever the Reform Party nominates at its Labor Day convention.
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There's a storm in an eggcup today over Alistair Darling spending only half the week in London and the rest in Scotland while he takes his turn as Gordon Brown's stand-in during the Prime Minister's "holiday".
Archive 2009-08-01
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I thought going to a cart was about getting some food, not being a stand-in herded through a publicity shot.
At Lunch Now: Boulud Says “Shake Shack Has Nothing On My Burger!” | Midtown Lunch - Finding Lunch in the Food Wasteland of NYC's Midtown Manhattan
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Plus, all of the self-deprecating, angst-riddled lines that Allen writes for himself (or his stand-in) have gotten a little old over the years.
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However, Tim Flowers' stand-in was up to the shot and knocked the ball down before gathering at the second attempt.
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The accident happened when the woman, a stand-in chargehand, was working in the factory's pre-pack section.
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As my explanations here are probably above your understand-ings, lattlebrattons, though as augmentatively uncomparisoned as Cadwan, Cadwallon and Cadwalloner, I shall revert to a more expletive method which I frequently use when I have to sermo with muddlecrass pupils.
Finnegans Wake
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He was also replaced by a stand-in because he was in police custody at the time of the race.
The Sun
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Take your pick from the central defensive duo of Paddy McLoughlin and stand-in skipper Ruairi Boyle.
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Visits to a Web site, of course, are not the same as a person-to-person meeting, but as are teleconferences, the activity is a virtual stand-in for direct interpersonal communication.
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Jessica St. Clair is Jane's younger sister, Emily, the stand-in for happily married, terribly earnest supermoms.
Talented cast, humorless task in 'Motherhood'
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He decided not to appoint stand-in cronies after four millionaires on his original list were blocked.
The Sun
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Until Howard Gardner introduced multiple intelligences into the common lexicon, people tended to use the term IQ as a stand-in for intelligence.
Red Flags or Red Herrings?
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As The Ghost, McGregor is the stand-in for the audience, drawn in over his head and struggling to figure out the high stakes world of political intrigue.
Movie Review: The Ghost Writer » Scene-Stealers
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A stand-in gymnast who did multiple back flips to represent Brundle’s increased mutant strength at the start of Act II received a big round of applause as well.
Be afraid. Be very afraid.
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The Meal Maker Belgian waffle baker and sandwich griddle is a big stand-in for à full stovetop.
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Martha is a little girl for whom the reader becomes, effectively, a stand-in, and Lionel is a suave, ginger-haired cat-trickster who only pretends to spend his days napping on the sofa.
A Walrus, a Bear, A Cat, Oh My!
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If that wasn't enough, he plays a dishy, sensitive stand-in father in the film, which is guaranteed to have the nation swooning and asking for more.
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Likewise the use of animals as human stand-ins turns the tales into Aesop-like fables with a modern, existential twist.
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I was sent to tell you they were using a stand-in ," Leaphorn said.
TALKING GOD
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The former Patriots stand-in guided the team to 11 wins if not the tiebreaker New England required for a postseason return.
Distractions loom in Pittsburgh as Steelers, Big Ben start camp
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The en suite shower room has a tiled stand-in shower, a hand basin and a dormer window.
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Only thirty pages after pocketing the crubeen and trotter does he arrive at the brothel of Mrs. Cohen, the Circe stand-in.
'Making the Wrong Joyce': An Exchange
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As a stand-in, they used a much less viscous liquid known as methoxy-nonafluorobutane, originally formulated as a more environmentally friendly replacement for ozone layer-depleting industrial solvents.
HappyNews - Top Stories
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Ms Green couldn't be here today, so I'm her stand-in.
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Aboard they had some six hundred gallons of gasoline, just a partial load, and a male stand-in for her.
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One questionable choice Crowley and Goldman make is the inclusion of a pair of political reporter stand-ins: Middle-aged, rumple-suited Harlan Jessop, and young, funny hairstyle-having Jason Newbury.
Review: 08: A Graphic Diary of the Campaign Trail
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Not all figuration is metaphoric though; in metonymy, the process of interpretation is not based on resemblances but on other forms of association -- the association of a crown with a king, for example, such that we use the artefact as a metonymic stand-in for the person.
Notes on Strange Fiction: Narrative's Function (1)
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A campaign run by the always-chingón Applied Research Center publishers of the even-more-chingón magazine, Colorlines is seeking that everyone stop using the term "illegal" outright, or at the least resort to using the awkward I-word stand-in.
Gustavo Arellano: ¡ASK A MEXICAN!: "Illegals" and The "N-Word"
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In 1947, the late W.O. Mitchell married prairie topography and meteorology with the historic shorthand of wind as a stand-in for Godhood in the now canonic novel Who Has Seen The Wind.