Noun you'll be getting a substitute until your regular teacher is feeling better if you like, you can use nuts as a substitute for coconut in that recipe Verb One of our teachers is sick, so we need someone to substitute. They substituted real candles with electric ones.
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Noun
This is where my involvement and advocacy for public education began, as a PTA and Booster Club President and K-8 substitute teacher. Renata Cló, The Arizona Republic, 14 Sep. 2022 The board also approved a temporary raise in substitute teacher pay from $225 to $300 per day and to $325 per day on Fridays through June 30, 2023. Laura Groch, San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 Sep. 2022 The rest of the time, a substitute teacher supervised them and gave the students busy work. Perry Stein, Washington Post, 8 Sep. 2022 The homework assignment was passed out by a substitute teacher in a social studies class on Wednesday, Barber explained. Ryan Callihan The Bradenton Herald (tns), al, 2 Sep. 2022 Last year, Cuervo served as a substitute teacher at Mount Pleasant High School. Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 29 Aug. 2022 Simmons works as a substitute teacher in Union County during the school year and has spent her life gardening. Karl Schneider, The Indianapolis Star, 17 Aug. 2022 Sunderland made $225 a day as a substitute teacher, and ultimately won a 25% pay increase with back pay following the strike, but the city has still not come forward with her back pay. Lauren Kaori Gurley, Anchorage Daily News, 1 Aug. 2022 When Amy Randall's dishwasher broke down a couple of months ago, the substitute teacher watched video after video on YouTube to learn potential fixes, but none of them worked. Alicia Wallace, CNN, 29 July 2022
Verb
There are also some novel materials out there that can substitute as a tinder fire starter, including steel wool. Chris Meehan, Popular Mechanics, 14 Aug. 2022 One important leverage point is finding ingredients for animal feed that can substitute for grains, freeing more farmland to grow crops for human consumption. Merritt Drewery, The Conversation, 28 June 2022 San Francisco and Berkeley, for instance, do not allow the use of a recent negative coronavirus test result to substitute for the vaccination requirement. Emily Alpert Reyes Staff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 6 Oct. 2021 What energies might substitute for those once spent on hero worship? Philip Kennicott, Washington Post, 23 Aug. 2022 In an effort to establish a safer bike route past and beyond downtown Portland’s Elk Fountain, the city will soon substitute a bike lane for one of the two driving lanes on Southwest Main Street between Third and Fourth avenues.oregonlive, 13 Aug. 2022 However, nothing can substitute for learning by doing and coaching delivered in the moment. Kweilin Ellingrud, Forbes, 8 Aug. 2022 Food sold to restaurants didn’t substitute easily for food sold in supermarkets. Greg Ip, WSJ, 15 June 2022 Aleppo pepper, an ancho-like crushed chile, can substitute for Turkish pepper.San Diego Union-Tribune, 29 June 2022 See More
Word History
Etymology
Noun
Middle English, from Anglo-French substitut, from Latin substitutus, past participle of substituere to put in place of, from sub- + statuere to set up, place — more at statute