as a substitute

Synonyms

alternatively conversely alternative alternately preferably or instead or else preferentially elsewise

Antonyms

likewise similarly additionally moreover furthermore also
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Examples

Modern wars are seldom fought without hatred between nations; this serves more or less as a substitute for hatred between individuals. Carl von Clausewitz

No poet will ever take the written word as a substitute for the spoken word; he knows that it is on the spoken word, and the spoken word only, that his art is founded. Lascelles Abercrombie

A moral point of view too often serves as a substitute for understanding in technological matters. Marshall McLuhan

Hitherto no rival hypothesis has been proposed as a substitute for the doctrine of transmutation; for 'independent creation,' as it is often termed, or the direct intervention of the Supreme Cause, must simply be considered as an avowal that we deem the question to lie beyond the domain of science. Charles Lyell

I am in favour of courage-who is ever not in the abstract?-but not of treating it as a substitute for wisdom, as I fear we are currently in danger of doing. Roy Jenkins

We of the Hunt are part of the solution. We offer voluntary murder as a substitute for war. You know that mankind will never be satisfied unless it is killing something. People can't even properly enjoy a landscape unless there's something moving across it that can be shot at. Robert Sheckley

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