All would serve as placeholder appointees who wouldn't run for election in 2010.
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Vargas is probably a placeholder until Cliff Lee returns from the disabled list.
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Turns out he was merely a placeholder for the Kennedys, a modern-day Ben Smith.
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They contain a placeholder image, informing contributors that this is the case.
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Mr. Medvedev has appeared to be little more than a figurehead and placeholder.
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The current placeholder image is so dry that it may crumble to dust at any moment.
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Nelson said the provision was a placeholder to give every state the same deal.
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AppleTV is a terrific device, but it seems like a placeholder for the company.
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These Republicans are objecting to a placeholder, taking a baseball bat to a vapor.
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Proxy: a person authorized to act for another
A symbol in a logical or mathematical expression that can be replaced by the name of any member of specified set
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In politics, a placeholder is an official appointed temporarily to a position, with the understanding that they will not seek office in their own right.
The 11th season of the American situation comedy television series Frasier originally aired between September 2003 and May 2004, beginning on September 23, 2003.
Something used or included temporarily or as a substitute for something that is not known or must remain generic; that which holds, denotes or reserves a place for something to come later
(Placeholders) boxes that appear on the slide allowing the user to add text to a slide
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