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"text": "Coordinate term: sub in"
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"ref": "2010, Kazim Ali, Orange Alert, page 183",
"text": "It's this single word also that Dickenson's editors subbed out for the 1896 edition of her poems, rendering the line instead, “But sequence ravelled out of reach / like balls upon a floor.”",
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"ref": "2013, Karen Elizaga, Find Your Sweet Spot, page 87",
"text": "I've listed sample habits to demonstrate how you might sub out an unproductive one with a productive one.",
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"ref": "2014, Lew Freedman, The Day All the Stars Came Out, page 103",
"text": "While McGraw subbed out Wilson, he allowed pitcher Lon Warneke to hit for himself.",
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{
"ref": "2018, Rebecca Sullivan, The Art of Herbs for Health",
"text": "The thyme can be subbed out for rosemary or sage, if you prefer.",
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"(transitive) To replace with a substitute."
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"ref": "2011, Max Kelly, Stress Failure, page 24",
"text": "You hate drywall, why are you doing it yourself? You shoulda subbed that out.",
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"ref": "2015, Richard A. Brooks, Private Investigators & The Dirty Little Secret of Subcontracting",
"text": "They will also sub out to investigators who are not insured or licensed as a PI in the case area.",
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"ref": "2018, Low Sui Pheng, Sim Jia Zheng, Construction Productivity in the Multilayer Subcontracting System, page 274",
"text": "So when I sub-out, it becomes a problem for the sub-cons to handle, not me.",
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"text": "I've listed sample habits to demonstrate how you might sub out an unproductive one with a productive one.",
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"text": "The thyme can be subbed out for rosemary or sage, if you prefer.",
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},
{
"ref": "2018, Low Sui Pheng, Sim Jia Zheng, Construction Productivity in the Multilayer Subcontracting System, page 274",
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