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model

[mod-l] / ˈmɒd l /




NOUN
person, thing that poses
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VERB
display, pose
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The pre-IPO perpetual contracts translate directly to Anthropic’s market capitalization via a $1.00 point equals $100 billion valuation index model.

From MarketWatch Aug. 28, 2026

In June, a report on the motion concluded there is "no legislative framework, funding mechanism or operational model in place", external that would allow the council to run such facilities.

From BBC Aug. 28, 2026

Nor is it a reflection on the independent mortgage bank business model that has originated most of the nation’s home loans in the wake of banks scaling back their mortgage activity after the 2007-09 recession.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 27, 2026

The AI model then recommended small groups of new configurations to test.

From Science Daily Aug. 27, 2026

We disembarked in Zakopane and were met by Karl, my grandmother’s caretaker, driver, and sometime model.

From "Not Nothing" by Gayle Forman

The basic tier for investing advice usually involves just automated computer models — call it AI-enhanced or robo advice.

From MarketWatch Aug. 28, 2026

But after protracted and public negotiations to agree on a new contract to use the AI models in a military setting failed, Anthropic found itself in the Pentagon’s crosshairs.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 28, 2026

The Claude-maker said its models were not reliable enough to be safely used in weapons systems for the military.

From BBC Aug. 28, 2026

The company built a “policy server” that prevents agents from doing things like deleting data sets, and stops Cisco data from being used to train third-party models, Subaiya said.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 27, 2026

As we make our way to the main entrance, I see adults who remind me of Hollywood movie stars and fashion magazine models.

From "Shine!" by J.J. and Chris Grabenstein

The underlying portfolio framework needs to treat longevity not as a fixed end date but as a variable, the same way market risk is modeled across a range of outcomes.

From MarketWatch Aug. 26, 2026

The scientists then modeled conditions in three locations near the lunar South Pole -- Nobile Rim, Connecting Ridge, and De Gerlache Rim.

From Science Daily Aug. 25, 2026

Philipp Harms and I modeled this as a two-armed bandit.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 25, 2026

If a child sees education modeled as important, that kid is more likely to go to college.

From Slate Aug. 11, 2026

Samuel Adams’s master’s thesis was “delivered in flawless Latin,” Alexander Hamilton copied Demosthenes into his commonplace book, and Thomas Jefferson modeled his oratory on the prose of Livy, Sallust, and Tacitus.

From "Words Like Loaded Pistols" by Sam Leith

The framework would be replaced by rules modelled on New Zealand's privacy legislation, which Reform says has the lightest-touch regime still recognised as being "adequate" by the EU.

From BBC Aug. 26, 2026

He ended decades of political dominance by dynastic parties and envisioned a national welfare state modelled on the Islamic golden age of the seventh to 14th centuries, a flourishing period in the Muslim world.

From Barron's Aug. 18, 2026

She is a commentator for outlets within conservative French billionaire Vincent Bollore's media stable, including the CNews television channel, which is seen as modelled on America's Fox News.

From Barron's Aug. 3, 2026

Maher has her own podcast, brand ambassador roles, modelled for Sports Illustrated, and finished as runner-up in the television series Dancing with the Stars.

From BBC Jun. 30, 2026

This meant, at least in theory, you’d be able to find the person you were modelled from.

From "Never Let Me Go" by Kazuo Ishiguro

He held a number of roles at the tech giant, most recently modeling Google’s generative search.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 26, 2026

Beyond the modeling conversation, longer potential lifespans have practical implications worth addressing now.

From MarketWatch Aug. 26, 2026

Using a combination of laboratory experiments and computational modeling, the researchers were able to reconstruct the process in greater detail.

From Science Daily Aug. 25, 2026

Unfortunately, your phone’s app is more likely to try to satisfy that latent desire than to force you to understand how complex weather modeling really is.

From Slate Aug. 21, 2026

“I’ve done some modeling work. For Sherman’s Shoes in Old Town.”

From "Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library" by Chris Grabenstein

“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

The dataset combines observations from satellites operated by multiple countries, weather stations on land, at sea and in the air, together with climate modelling.

From Barron's Aug. 10, 2026

Then, the wind tunnel was not ready to receive any modelling until mid-April, so now they were nearly four months behind the others.

From BBC Aug. 4, 2026

I remember a time when I could only have been five or six, sitting at a low table beside Amanda C., our hands clammy with modelling clay.

From "Never Let Me Go" by Kazuo Ishiguro




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