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doubling (as)

verb

present participle of double (as)

as in standing in

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One afternoon, a man wearing a purple kurta was standing in line outside the shop.

— Akhil Sharma, New Yorker, 3 Sep. 2026
That frees the company up to try to build new monopolies in AI, and the current DOJ doesn’t seem very interested in standing in the way of Big Tech.

— Ryan Whitwam, ArsTechnica, 2 Sep. 2026

Definition of standing in

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LaNeve, who is filling in as the Army’s top uniformed officer, recently ordered the battalion to refocus on its core mission of being an airborne infantry unit.

— Konstantin Toropin, Los Angeles Times, 2 Sep. 2026
Jelly Roll shared his thoughts on Dolly Parton while filling in as guest host on Jimmy Kimmel Live!

— Emily Zemler, Rolling Stone, 26 Aug. 2026

Definition of filling in

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Whenever either of them is absent, Estevao is very capable of stepping in.

— Liam Twomey, New York Times, 26 Aug. 2026
Now, the Gates Foundation is stepping in to help fund scientific research through an historic $540 million gift to The Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME), an independent research organization at the University of Washington.

— Sydney Lake, Fortune, 12 Aug. 2026

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Maximalist Garden Design Similar to interior design, the Rococo aesthetic, with its ornate and romantic details, is taking over garden design.

— Michele Laufik, Martha Stewart, 3 Sep. 2026
Mladic first led a Serb insurgency in Croatia before taking over the Bosnian Serb army that was backed by Serbia and then-President Slobodan Milosevic, who also died in the custody of the Hague court in 2006 while on trial for genocide.

— Jovana Gec, Los Angeles Times, 27 Aug. 2026

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