Sub
Sub verb - To serve as a replacement usually for a time only.
Usage example: the weekend anchor is subbing for the TV station's main anchor all this week
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Synonyms for Sub
Take over
Take over verb - To serve as a replacement usually for a time only.
Usage example: I'll take over for her until she gets back from her morning break
Sub and take over are semantically related in substitute topic. Sometimes you can use "Sub" instead a verb "Take over", if it concerns topics such as interchange, put in place of.
Mutual synonyms
Both terms in one sentence
- Plus, Danny, a minor character, had a sub-plot that while did not take over the whole film, was an odd decision.
Source: Franchise Original Sin / Film -
When Loki reveals his scheme of wanting the sub-people to take over the royal family and take vengeance on those who have wronged them, he tells Nakaba not to forgive Caesar, who is supposed to be her enemy.
Source: Manga / Reimei No Arcana - Germany in 1964 is not a very nice place by any means, but rather than the 'the Nazis take over the entire planet' scenarios common to the sub-genre, it's clearly ended up as closer to being an analogue of the Soviet Union than an all-powerful unstoppable juggernaut.
Source: Literature / Fatherland
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