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: someone employed to occupy an actor's place while lights and camera are readied
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Examples of stand-in in a Sentence
Noun
hired him at the last minute as a stand-in for the person who quit
Verb
she will be standing in for the regular teacher for a week
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Virgie Tovar, Forbes.com, 7 Apr. 2025
The extremely rough idea was to use the quantum particles in a flat material—a grid of atoms, basically—as a stand-in for the Turing machine’s tape.
—Charlie Wood, Wired News, 6 Apr. 2025
Phaedra Trethan, USA Today, 19 Apr. 2025
Nunes retired in the Octagon, but while fans and others cheered, Peña stood in the crowd and booed her rival.
—Brian Mazique, Forbes.com, 17 Apr. 2025
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Noun
Despite the fact that most people in the United States are plus-size, thin actors are still meant to to be stand-ins for the average American viewer.
—Virgie Tovar, Forbes.com, 7 Apr. 2025
The extremely rough idea was to use the quantum particles in a flat material—a grid of atoms, basically—as a stand-in for the Turing machine’s tape.
—Charlie Wood, Wired News, 6 Apr. 2025
Verb
Victor Perez, who was autistic and had cerebral palsy, was shot nine times on April 5 while standing in the yard in Pocatello, a city of about 60,000 in southeastern Idaho.
—Phaedra Trethan, USA Today, 19 Apr. 2025
Nunes retired in the Octagon, but while fans and others cheered, Peña stood in the crowd and booed her rival.
—Brian Mazique, Forbes.com, 17 Apr. 2025
See All Example Sentences for stand-in
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“Stand-in.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/stand-in. Accessed 21 Apr. 2025.
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