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If mathX/math replaces mathY/math or if you replace mathY/math with mathX/math, mathX/math now does what mathY/math used to do. Smith will replace the injured Jones for England who are leading 2 to 0. If you replace something, you put it back where it was. After looking at the ring for a while, he carefully replaced it and left the shop.

replace

substitute a person or thing for (another that is broken or inefficient or lost or no longer working or yielding what is expected) He replaced the old razor blade We need to replace the secretary that left a month ago the insurance will replace the lost income This antique vase can never be replaced (= supplant) take the place or move into the position of Smith replaced Miller as CEO after Miller left the computer has supplanted the slide rule Mary replaced Susan as the team's captain and the highest-ranked player in the school put something back where it belongs replace the book on the shelf after you have finished reading it please put the clean dishes back in the cabinet when you have washed them (= substitute, interchange) put in the place of another; switch seemingly equivalent items the con artist replaced the original with a fake Rembrandt substitute regular milk with fat-free milk synonyms can be interchanged without a changing the context's meaning

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Simple sentences

I'd like to replace it.
This worker is easy to replace.
This solution would replace a racist apartheid state with a democratic state for all its citizens.
Please replace the empty ink jet cartridge in the printer.
I must replace that fluorescent lamp.
This fluorescent lamp is starting to flicker. We'll have to replace it.
Replace the old tires with new ones.
You can also replace the mascarpone with cream.
Please replace it.
Please replace the empty ink cartridge in the printer.
I need to replace my keyboard with a new one.
Please replace the empty printer cartridge.
When writing for a German newspaper, every few sentences you should replace some grammatical case with a dative, or a noun with its English translation, to make your article linguistically more interesting.
In your thesis, you could at least replace a few German words with their English equivalents, so that it's not so obvious that it is plagiarised.
Tom bought a new camera for Mary to replace the one he had borrowed and lost.
Because of the problem of air pollution, the bicycle may some day replace the automobile.
Should the word processor go wrong, we guarantee to replace it free of charge.
But while I am here, do you think you could replace the batteries?
In China, there is a large number of characters, so the goal of the character simplification was to replace the complex traditional characters with easy to remember simplified characters and increase the literacy rate.
Replace it.

Movie subtitles

First payday I get, I'm going to replace this monstrosity.
I heard Mr. Wyatt's building a new mess hall to replace the tent.
The boss sent me to replace you.
Per the instructions you have just received, at exactly 11:00 tomorrow night you will break into the bank and replace the bills now deposited in the bank with the counterfeit bills so that the bank itself will distribute the counterfeit money.
It was unwise to replace a professional sailor like Mr Fryer with a relative novice?
Nobody can replace you in the middle of a war!
Monsieur Gattard will continue with. second and third form French on Thursdays. which will replace Dr. Spitzer's science section. moved up to Friday afternoon.
I even persuaded him to replace the venerable garment that had become another Brookfield tradition.
Still, they roll on westward in covered wagons. on horseback and afoot. every man jack lookin' for somethin'different- some for land to replace worn-out acres. some for new opportunities, and some probably just for the devil of it.
You will all be sent to replace men who have been killed in other ships.
WE'LL GET SOMEBODY TO REPLACE YOU.
This belt can replace Sister Marthe's.
I borrowed 100 francs from my cash box at the post office, thinking I'd replace it from my savings, but.
Wrong to think that you could ever reform or to believe that friendship and loyalty could replace your desire for conquest.
The bicycle will never replace the horse.
But, the horse will never replace the bicycle. which is quite a horse on the bicycle if I ever saw one, and I never did.
I cant replace your ideals but ill buy you another watch when we get to Shanghai.
I wish I could replace everything else, too.
Presumably, this is an inside joke, put in by a music editor some years later, to replace the music used for the initial release of the film.
I must find a lion to replace Anatole.
Can anyone replace you?
Replace them with two from the starboard side.
They'll replace our lost oxygen!
Mazeau, find out which fuses blew. Replace them.
I'll replace oppa.
Someone else can replace you to go to WOC.
Then, you better hurry up and find someone to replace you. The villa that my hyeong went to, there were some people who knew beforehand, right?
Within the next month, she will replace King Lee Jae Ha and carry out associate work.
Gen will replace the stem, and then I'll take it back.
We need someone to replace Marambot and I'd like to engage my friend.
We will replace its stranger. By still more handsome other.
Not that I'd consider anything that would take me away from her. But the other day when Mr. Fabian told Miss Channing that her understudy was going to have a baby and they'd have to replace her.
It might be advisable to replace him until the sale is consummated.
I'm firing her right away. We'll replace her with a man. A good, honest, old man.
Do you know that Martinelli will replace the high school math teacher?
The guy you will replace had become weak.

News and current affairs

Almost everyone agreed that the old paradigm of neoclassical economics was broken, but there was no agreement on what can replace it.
A solution to both high prices and misdirected research is to replace the current model with a government-supported prize fund.
That is exactly what is going on in Ukraine, where President Leonid Kuchma proposes to junk our presidential system and replace it with a strange type of parliamentary system he has concocted.
The solution should be to focus on improving the technology - making the lights safer, brighter, warm up faster, and save more energy, so that more people will replace more of their lights.
Could a federal Europe replace today's national identities?
Unless other countries become more willing to step forward for the common good, a post-American world could quickly become a far more frightening environment than what it would replace.
Unfortunately, the DPJ scrapped an LDP-sponsored civil-service reform bill, which would have allowed the DPJ to replace mandarins with an army of political appointees.
Should not the Fed step in and replace them with its own purchases of long-term US Treasury bonds, thereby keeping long-term interest rates at a level conducive to full employment?
If the financial sector declines, what will replace it in employment terms?
Loss of control of the Senate also meant that Klaus's hope to replace Havel as president diminished.
Looking back at his career, Arafat never really veered from the belief that his life's mission was to destroy Israel by any means necessary and replace it with a Palestinian Arab state.
Or will artificial intelligence replace the mantra of outsourcing and manufacturing migration?
As robots increasingly replace human labor, humans will need incomes to replace wages from work.
There is significant potential domestic demand for coal briquettes to replace wood for cooking and domestic and industrial heating.
The best way to address that question is to focus not on who, but on what, would replace Arafat.
It should signal a real willingness to replace an order that reflects the world of 1945 with one that reflects the world of 2015.
Meanwhile, in Hawaii, policymakers gathered to discuss a climate change treaty to replace the Kyoto Protocol.
Indeed, Tibet could soon replace Taiwan as a factor in regional stability and an important issue in international relations.
This year, a new global climate agreement will be negotiated in Copenhagen to replace the Kyoto Protocol.
Afterwards, the Commission will draft new merger control rules to replace the current ones which date back to 1990.
The current talks aim to replace the expired 1997 PCA, which remains in force by mutual consent pending a new accord.

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