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model

[mod-l] / ˈmΙ’d l /




NOUN
person, thing that poses
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VERB
display, pose
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One of the men who stepped into the witness box, Dr. Joseph Bell, was the model on whom a most famous sleuth had been based.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 23, 2026

Storey said the current police funding model, which Mahmood had previously committed to reviewing, disadvantaged the Teesside force.

From BBC ● Oct. 23, 2026

The Slovenian-born former model has been pursuing a parallel diplomatic track on Ukraine since October 2025, when she announced that she established a channel of communication with Putin.

From Barron's ● Oct. 23, 2026

“If you run your model now and it’s bad news, you want to know about it now. There’s not much you can do to fix things at 60,” Spada said.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 23, 2026

“There’s a certain model of whatnot—real whatnots, I mean, the androids Frances Miranda Gonzagaga originally built,” she said.

From "The School for Whatnots" by Margaret Peterson Haddix

The AI Biosecurity Lab's creation will also be supported by leading AI developers, with OpenAI and Anthropic providing £200m worth of AI model credits that can be spent on the use of their models.

From BBC ● Oct. 24, 2026

“I feel like people who have undergone moments like that have a greater appreciation for what the models are able to do in the future.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 24, 2026

At first, the models stumbled on tricky problems that required complex multistep reasoning.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 24, 2026

But the jump in China was because last year’s sales of those models were weak, as Chinese buyers scooped up the base model iPhone 17, said Counterpoint analyst Gerrit Schneemann.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 23, 2026

“And the lab’s where we’ll be working on the weather models, but what’s happening in the ballroom?”

From "City Spies" by James Ponti

A recent presentation of DWP’s long-term power plan modeled rates reaching 71.1 cents per kWh by 2044.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 17, 2026

Wynne believes the AI-generated voice in a Royal Mail ad was modeled on her father, who narrated BBC programs and Paddington audiobooks.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 12, 2026

It is one of around 40 similar suits brought by cities, states, tribes and other local jurisdictions, modeled on successful litigation against tobacco and opioid producers.

From Barron's ● Oct. 5, 2026

An international team modeled roughly 1,000 years of earthquake activity along the southern San Andreas and San Jacinto fault systems to estimate the amount of stress currently concentrated around Cajon Pass.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 2, 2026

Every wart was lovingly modeled; the eyes bulged properly, the full throat with the delicate wrinkles of age was definitely Gower’s.

From "Abel's Island" by William Steig

The researchers modelled how climate change could shift the monal's suitable habitat across the Indian Himalayan region in the states of Uttarakhand and Himachal Pradesh.

From BBC ● Oct. 6, 2026

“Our model reaches 151 tons/annum at run rate, 64% of Mt Weld’s modelled 235 tons/annum,” Jefferies says.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 5, 2026

In the 1960s, Labour's Harold Wilson modelled his TV campaigning on JFK in America.

From BBC ● Aug. 20, 2026

Taking into account the world's ageing population, they then modelled how heat will affect the health of three different age ranges by 2100 under varying levels of global warming.

From Barron's ● Aug. 17, 2026

“The optimum population,” said Mustapha Mond, “is modelled on the iceberg—eight-ninths below the water line, one-ninth above.”

From "Brave New World" by Aldous Huxley

“I would liken the trading and modeling to the striker, or the guy who kicks the ball in the goal at the end of the play,” he said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 19, 2026

One said the show has "gone from iconic glamour to an influencer circus" and they felt "social media clout and performative inclusivity have replaced real modeling talent, elegance, and runway presence".

From BBC ● Oct. 19, 2026

"Further long-term geodetic and modeling studies will provide a more thorough understanding and allow for effective hazard monitoring and mitigation at Masaya and other lava-lake hosting basaltic volcanoes," Johnson said.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 19, 2026

"My goal is to use mathematical modeling to identify important mechanisms and generate insights that may help guide future experimental and therapeutic research."

From Science Daily ● Oct. 11, 2026

Fisher realized that the careful mathematical modeling of hereditary traits might resolve this rift.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee

What is different this time is they think the modelling is outdated, and the language seems to have toughened.

From BBC ● Sep. 3, 2026

He says that there hasn't been enough academic research and modelling in the UK on how wildfires behave to make land management changes meaningful.

From BBC ● Aug. 25, 2026

“Our modelling suggests eurozone headline inflation could rise above 3.5% later this year if current energy prices persist,” he said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 2026

The threat that rising temperatures fuelled by climate change pose to the health of older people has been dramatically underestimated, according to a US modelling study published Tuesday.

From Barron's ● Aug. 17, 2026

"I'd like to bring out the modelling of the features. And I'd try to get hold of all the back hair."

From " The Great Gatsby" by F. Scott Fitzgerald


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