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Proof that nothing is irreplaceable, including the thing that just replaced it.
means A person or thing that takes the place of another, filling the gap left behind.
from From Old French 'replacer' — re- ('again') plus 'placer' ('to place'), itself from 'place.' The word simply means 'to place again,' and crept into English in the 1600s with that same blunt logic: something gone, something put back in its spot.
- economics term
- replacement cost ignores sentimental value entirely
- biology version
- your skeleton replaces itself over roughly a decade
- sports usage
- benchwarmers live for this exact word
- theory trap
- ship of theseus asks if replaced equals original