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How to use the word substitute in a Sentence?

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The one lesson I have learned is that there is no substitute for paying attention.

Diane Sawyer

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2 months ago

Left unchallenged, it would prohibit transgender children from receiving health care that their medical providers and their parents have determined to be medically necessary. In doing so, the law seeks to substitute the judgment of trained medical professionals and parents with that of elected officials and codifies discrimination against children who already face far too many obstacles.

Tennessee Henry Leventis

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Cindy was supposed to come over to have dinner with Maria last night after she filled in as a substitute teacher yesterday at Covenant.

Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Which of our patients with cancer should get it? How can we prioritize between American lives? Should our limited vials go to an older woman who was just diagnosed with lung cancer, a young man who’s already been successfully taking it for testicular cancer, or a baby with neuroblastoma and aggressive cancer for which this drug is recommended but others might substitute? as a doctor who’s devoted my life to fighting cancer, it’s hard to express how horrible that is.

Andrew Shuman

Found on CNN
1 year ago

There is no substitute for returning to community-based policing, you can’t have confidence in the safety of public transportation when there are not police officers at the platforms and police officers at the stations.

Paul Vallas

Found on CNN
1 year ago

YouTube became the television substitute for Russia … the Kremlin fear that if they do n’t have YouTube, they wo n’t be able to control the flow of information to( younger people).

Kiryl Sukhotski

Found on CNN
1 year ago

It’s not just a simple question of if we can substitute physicians with nurse practitioners or not, it depends on how we use them. If we just use them as independent providers, especially … for relatively complicated patients, it doesn’t seem to be a very good use.

Yiqun Chen

Found on CNN
1 year ago

There is no substitute for adult interaction, modeling and teaching.

Joyce Harrison

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Just like many may choose to have a glass of water in between cocktails, some non-alcoholic beverages provide an alternative for drinkers when they want to moderate or feel like enjoying a drink without the alcohol by volume, ultimately non-alcoholic drinks are mostly formulated to taste like familiar adult beverages, giving many consumers an occasional substitute, not necessarily an outright replacement.

Taylor Berry

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Pulling more crude from the strategic petroleum reserve will only artificially lower prices for the short term and should not be a substitute for long-term policies to increase domestic crude supplies, the SPR was established to reduce the impacts of short-term market disruptions, not serve as a long-term solution or tool to manipulate energy markets.

Anne Bradbury

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

There is no substitute for patience, in any work we want to practice it more and more, Practice the truth of good and violence will not give place to your heart.

POET MD HEDAETUL ISLAM

added by TEJIKOBI
1 year ago

There is no substitute for patience, in any work we want to practice it more and more, Practice the truth of good and violence will not give place to your heart. Poet Md. Hedaetul Islam

POET MD HEDAETUL ISLAM

added by TEJIKOBI
1 year ago

The Oklahoma Pardon and Parole Board hearing is not designed to be a substitute for a trial before a jury. The juries heard evidence about Coddington's childhood environment and brain development during the sentencing phase of the trials, the jury also concluded that James Coddington was a continuing threat to society -- both inside and outside of prison walls.

Oklahoma Attorney General John O'Connor

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I think there's an argument to be made that small-to-medium scale re-releases in IMAX and other formats should occur more often, while there is no substitute for a brand new release capturing a wide audience, select screenings of legacy content can offer valuable supplemental revenue to many theater owners and studios.

Shawn Robbins

Found on CNN
1 year ago

This is a big ask, but it does not exaggerate the scale of what is needed, it is categorically not enough to just rely on gas from non-Russian sources — these supplies are simply not available in the volumes required to substitute for missing deliveries from Russia.

Fatih Birol

Found on CNN
1 year ago

It's still just the unknown of how long this is going to take and not being able to find a suitable substitute for her is very stressful, it's taken a toll on( my daughter) as well.

Claire Holland

Found on CNN
1 year ago

As I watched this, I started to believe that there is actually enormous potential in the characteristics unique to hydrogen engines instead of simply treating it as a substitute for gasoline.

Takeshi Yamada

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

I think you’re God's gift right now to black America, to the black community all across America, because we've gotten this terrible, terrible idea coming out of the 60s, that our dependency on the larger society is justice. And that what we need to be doing is protesting, and that we need Black Lives Matter, and that we need black anger and we need black identity, no, those things assuage us as we decline. What we need are traditional family values. A mother and a father — no social programs will ever substitute for that. We need that sort of common sense responsibility for our own fate — don't just keep giving us things, more and more things. Ask more from us and we need to ask more from ourselves.

Shelby Steele

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

At the end of the day, our goal is to provide quality instruction for students and when we don't have the substitute teachers there to do that, that's just not feasible.

Ben Horsley

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Our children need consistency. And part of that consistency is coming to school and having the same schedule, although a substitute in the classroom may be a little inconsistent -- because you could have me, you could have Mrs. Smith tomorrow, you could have Mrs. Jones the next day -- they're still in their regular classroom.

Jan Stone

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Good morning, I am Jan Stone. I'm going to be World War II-themed substitute today.

Jan Stone

Found on CNN
2 years ago

This week's harried discussions about Senate rules are but a poor substitute for what I believe could have and should have been a thoughtful public debate at any time over the past year.

Kirsten Sinema

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

If your favorite brand is not on the shelf, find a substitute, resist hoarding. If you take a little bit more than what you need, it can compound the situation.

Doug Baker

Found on CNN
2 years ago

There's no need for me to restate my longstanding support for the 60-vote threshold to pass legislation. There's no need for me to restate its role in protecting our country from wild reversals of federal policy, this week's harried discussions about Senate rules are but a poor substitute for what I believe could have and should have been a thoughtful public debate at any time over the past year.

Kyrsten Sinema

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

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