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Researchers at Carnegie Mellon found that only New Yorkers replaced "something" with "suttin" on Twitter.
It therefore replaced something with nothing -- an act that could only be divine in origin".
In both types of synecdoche, something has replaced something else, a substitution has taken place.
But its 1970s tower needs to be replaced — something that is not expected to happen anytime soon.
Silly though it would be to suggest that the city should be fossilized by postwar nostalgia, it seems even sillier to have replaced something as special as Milan's old subway system with an unremarkable one.
That COBOL mainframe at the heart of the bank from the 1960s-70s isn't something to revere, but rather something that needs to be replaced, something that needs to be "modernized".
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"It's that they want to replace something with nothing".
"Every new low-end phone replaces something with less sophistication".
Why even think about replacing something that works so well?
So the tablets were replacing something that was missing.
"I wondered," says Morgan, "if you located your identity in others to replace something you feel is lacking inside yourself?
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