How to Use substitutable in a Sentence
substitutable
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For now the queue still runs through the most substitutable nodes.
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Güney Yıldız,
Forbes.com,
30 Aug. 2026
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One is air, another is water, those are not easily substitutable.
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Zulekha Nathoo,
USA Today,
20 Mar. 2026
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Its place has been taken by agents as the workload, inside a model system in which any single model is substitutable.
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Trefis Team,
Forbes.com,
18 Aug. 2026
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The pattern is not specific to restaurants—any company that prices frequently against substitutable options faces the same dynamic.
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Michael Lukianoff,
Forbes.com,
29 June 2026
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The article by Trammell and Patel has already received some pushback online, largely on the ground that its assumption that capital is perfectly substitutable for labor is unrealistic.
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John Cassidy,
New Yorker,
12 Jan. 2026
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