"replace" in place of "substitute"

[Mark A. Mandel]

I haven't tried to track all the details, but ISTR that most of the
discussion and citations about "replace" and "substitute" involve

    "substitute" in the sense of 'use X [in place of Y]'

with or without explicit Y.

Here's one in the opposite direction. In the first paragraph below, the
writer uses

    "replace" in the older accepted sense of 'use [X in place of] Y'

(Y = flour and grains, explicit X = matzoh meal)

and then in the next paragraph the interviewee, author Marge Piercy, uses

    "replace" in the sense of 'use X [in place of Y]'

(Y = flour, explicit in context but not in the construction) where we old
fogies want to use "substitute".

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The Philadelphia Inquirer

http://www.philly.com/philly/entertainment/20070329_Setting_a_sensible_seder_The_Passover_meal_rests_as_much_on_food_as_tradition_.html
Setting a sensible seder | Inquirer | 03/29/2007

Passover dinner - especially the dessert - is a challenge because it
features year-round favorites in which flour and grains have to be replaced
with matzoh meal, making them heavier and more difficult to digest.

"Working with matzoh meal is much harder," Piercy says. "You can't just
replace it in recipes that call for flour because it's so much heavier."

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