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- verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
replace .
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Examples
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His name replaces that of previous chief cashier Andrew Bailey - whose signature still appears on most banknotes in circulation.
BBC News - Home 2011
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A party gets the Olly Girls fired; Erin replaces Janelle, who is on probation for her antics.
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I hate his guts, oh yes I do, I hate him and all his friends and associates and everything he stands for, and I hope his name replaces Carter as the new byword for failure and incompetence.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Paul Hollander on the Fall of Communism 2009
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Griffin replaces interim superintendent Ron Hutchinson, who was hired for a two year stint after the process to replace outgoing superintendent Bill Symons was bungled.
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Griffin replaces interim superintendent Ron Hutchinson, who was hired for a two year stint after the process to replace outgoing superintendent Bill Symons was bungled.
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Sele, the gone-to-Anaheim free agent Baldwin replaces, never has been confused with former Seattle dominant types, such as
USATODAY.com - Sierra adds missing piece to Seattle's lineup 2002
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Proceeding from this general picture it would be tempting to propose that the viral transforming protein replaces one of the normal nuclear regulatory proteins of the cell, and being unaffected by the mediators that control the normal protein, keeps growth related transcription going, bypassing the signals of the plasma membrane.
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Then the one succeeding in giving the word replaces the leader.
School, Church, and Home Games George Orrin Draper
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And, without going beyond the first, we shall implicitly affirm that a second term replaces it in saying that the first "is not."
Evolution créatrice. English Henri Bergson 1900
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