Excuses
Substitutes and excuses are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Substitutes" instead a noun "Excuses".
Substitutes
Excuses and substitutes are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Excuses" instead a noun "Substitutes".
Both words in one sentence
- For obvious reasons, a couple of lines were slightly changed, but otherwise remains the same ("I am the king of excuses" changing to "queen of excuses"; "...That I'm still a man in need of a Savior" substitutes "girl" for "man")
Source: The Cover Changes the Gender -
Animorphs carefully averts the trope; the heroes constantly have to make up excuses and lie about supervision for their absences from home, or even get substitutes for themselves.
Source: Free-Range Children
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