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Placed, indeed, in a representative position (7)

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I believe the answer is:

deputed

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'placed indeed' is the definition.
The answer and definition can be both to do with social activities as well as being past participle verbs.
Maybe there's an association between them I don't understand?

'in a representative position' is the wordplay.
'in' is an insertion indicator.
'a representative' becomes 'deed' (I can't justify this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'position' becomes 'put' (synonyms).
'deed' going around 'put' is 'DEPUTED'.

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(Other definitions for deputed that I've seen before include "Assigned" , "Delegated" , "Made a representative" .)

I've seen this clue in the Evening Standard.
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