Sentence examples similar to stand-in for knowledge from inspiring English sources

And the winner is... Truth be told, Monkey was a pretty poor stand-in for Ross, whose TV knowledge would have come in pretty handy for last night's quiz.

(her stand-in for Santa Barbara).

The search engine has become such a stand-in repository for human knowledge that it has, among other things, compromised the entire genre of games based on trivia.

The issue is, just like cell phones have made it easier to forget phone numbers, "google" as verb is now a replacement for the word and action "think". The search engine has become such a stand-in repository for human knowledge that it has, among other things, compromised the entire genre of games based on trivia.

This process continues with designing a knowledge claim that is to stand in for (and partly blackboxes) the aligned elements [ 31].

Lots of chives stood in for scallions.

Yellowtail stands in for mahi-mahi.

(Broomsticks stand in for the latest electronics).

(Apes stood in for some Python regulars).

What, then, stands in for fantasy?

We stand in for each other.