Thesaurus results for REPLACEMENTS

replacements

noun

plural of replacement

as in substitutes

a person or thing that takes the place of another seeing that the starting quarterback was unable to play, the coach immediately called in his replacement

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Recent Examples of replacements Amin Ventures would pay $3,000 to cut down the trees and plans to plant two replacements according to city records. — Charlotte Observer, 16 Oct. 2026 Records indicate neither the original employees in those positions nor their replacements relocated to Sacramento. — Tyler Horst, CBS News, 15 Oct. 2026 While most Apple products stop receiving repairs or replacement parts after being added to the obsolete list, MacBooks may still receive battery replacements for up to 10 years after Apple stops selling them — if batteries are still available. — Jibin Joseph, PC Magazine, 15 Oct. 2026 Their replacements, which include Ross Douthat and contributors like Ariel Levy and Sebastian Junger, have top-shelf backgrounds, but also little experience working on a weekly TV program that emphasizes long-form enterprise journalism. — Brian Steinberg, Variety, 14 Oct. 2026 Andy Green of the New York Mets and Chad Tracy of the Red Sox each were midseason replacements who eventually had the interim tag removed. — ABC News, 14 Oct. 2026 There’s an entire cottage industry of iPod mods out there, but Sprout Pi and Sprout Pico are two of the few full motherboard replacements that combine many of the most popular mods into a single upgrade. — Terrence O'Brien, The Verge, 14 Oct. 2026 When a code set changes underneath a policy, somebody has to map which of 10 replacements carries the standing the original had, and by default, that is nobody’s job. — Jp Montoya, Forbes.com, 13 Oct. 2026 West said the village is applying for an Illinois Environmental Protection Agency loan for the lead service line replacements and could begin looking into the possibility of a bond sale. — Gloria Casas, Chicago Tribune, 13 Oct. 2026

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substitutes

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Moreover, both sides are now able to target the substitutes and reserves that in the past could be used to cushion losses.

— Tatiana Mitrova, Foreign Affairs, 23 Oct. 2026
To be sure, odds and gambling platforms do not use methodologies used by traditional political polling, and therefore are not substitutes for political polls.

— Fred Imbert, CNBC, 21 Oct. 2026

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