Sentence examples for placeholders from inspiring English sources

If, by Howard's assessment, the Nationals are just placeholders for the Liberal party, country people can just as well tick the Liberal box.

As neutral placeholders in the top 10, they're more of an asset than a nuisance.

Many of these permits seem to be simply "placeholders", pre-emptively obtained in case the city or the state start to toughen up the building rules.

For a couple of months, I used some placeholders, but they didn't quite work.

In Rome, however, the conservative theologians and placeholders are still running the show.

(Its current progenitors and spokespeople are placeholders, pending formal primaries).

Rather than beginning with the D.S.M.'s placeholders and then seeking the biochemistry underlying them — which Hyman called a "fool's errand" — N.I.M.H. would encourage scientists to start with what is already known about the brain's role in mental suffering and try to build on that to construct an understanding of mental illness.

Yet there is a compensatory condition of what you could only call signiness — a proliferation of signs that are not portals to pleasure but placeholders for experiences.

Dylan's words — he has said as much — are often placeholders, devices to fit the melody and fill out the line, which is why dutiful efforts to extract a message or a meaning are largely beside the point.

Diagnostic labels, according to Hyman, had never been intended as more than useful constructs, placeholders that would provide agreement until psychiatry could develop objective measures — presumably when the understanding of the brain caught up with the understanding of the heart or the understanding of viral transmission.

Instead, they launched a movement to self-illustrate the book, inserting mini-portraits of the book's subjects into their personal copies, handy placeholders to give their imaginations a rest.