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The phrase "a placeholder" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to refer to a symbol, word, or piece of text that temporarily represents something else until the actual content is provided.
Example: "In the document, we used 'X' as a placeholder for the final data that will be inserted later."
Alternatives: "a stand-in" or "a temporary marker".
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This is a placeholder.
"Vista could become a placeholder".
There was no longer a placeholder.
So how am I a placeholder?
Mr. Kaufman resents being called a placeholder.
But this episode felt like a placeholder: King.
He had used the vibrato as a placeholder.
Mr Meles's chosen successor is a placeholder at best.
Was it only a transitional gadget, a placeholder that came between stone tablets and e-books?
"Useful" here serves as a placeholder for a different virtue, an aesthetic one.
He seems to have been a placeholder candidate for Republicans alienated from Romney.
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Since I tried Ludwig back in 2017, I have been constantly using it in both editing and translation. Ever since, I suggest it to my translators at ProSciEditing.

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