replaceable

Examples of replacing

replacing

In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.

Science advances by replacing old theories with new ones that make better predictions.
Having only one parent might have meant a household necessity of replacing the loss/absence of one parent.
Clearly, the public health official is not replacing the physician; rather, ethicists now realize a need to be in dialogue with both.
Observe that, after replacing, such colours no longer exist.
Then it is easy to see that replacing f by one more copy of e we would get a triangle-free hypergraph of not smaller weight.
The cost of replacing carbon by growing trees is so high primarily because of the opportunity costs of foregoing agricultural production on prime cropland.
In only one case do we find a toinfinitive straightforwardly replacing a bare infinitive.
Recall the earlier discussion about replacing the parts of the frozen individual.
Cochlear implants are electronic devices that aim at replacing the cochlear function.
The cost-centre-stack profiler extends this idea by replacing pairs of cost centres with a stack of cost centres.
Once again, replacing the continuous score with the dichotomous score for institutional democracy does not change the sign and statistical significance level of media openness.
The sampling space is enlarged by retaining all parents and all offspring in the population rather than replacing parents by new offspring.
The team working on replacing these functions of the hippocampus has copied its behavior, rather than waiting to understand its intricacies.
The house model eliminates ambiguities of kinship inevitably encountered with attempts to apply descent rules to corporate groups by replacing the term lineage with house.
With an inherent conflict between simply replacing price support with direct payments and controlling the rise in budget costs, what alternatives were available?
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