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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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As a model and actress from the 1950s, she became an emblem of modern femininity and the sexual revolution before later taking up the cause of animal rights.

From BBC Sep. 20, 2026

Starting with the 2027 model year, advertisements for Stellantis vehicles generally cannot go below the invoice price paid by the dealer.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 20, 2026

"In the meantime, this model serves as proof-of-concept; with this technique, we can produce a very high-performance upconversion nanoparticle that could be customized to any molecule you might want to detect. That's something entirely new."

From Science Daily Sep. 20, 2026

The business model was simple: You tell them how much you’re willing to invest in your new “home country,” and they tell you where you can afford to buy citizenship.

From Slate Sep. 20, 2026

Germany failed to match the Allies in tank development, producing just one model, the cumbersome A7V, manned by a crew of twelve, which appeared too late in the war to have any real impact.

From "The War to End All Wars: World War I" by Russell Freedman

Warnings from researchers in recent weeks about potential risks posed by the technology escalated the debate about AI safety, with some industry executives calling for a slowdown in developing models.

From BBC Sep. 21, 2026

As OpenAI, Anthropic and Meta all acknowledged this summer that their models had hacked outside companies, it raised an obvious question: Where’s Google?

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 20, 2026

Large-language models built by companies like OpenAI and Anthropic keep breaking out of their testing sandboxes.

From Salon Sep. 20, 2026

"Since the 1970s, mathematical models have predicted that large, complex ecosystems should destabilize and collapse," Montanari said.

From Science Daily Sep. 19, 2026

What struck them powerfully was how cheaply the models allowed a person to speculate on situations that were likely to end in one of two dramatic ways.

From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis

Researchers who have studied romantic relationships for decades say that the way feelings change over time may follow patterns that can be modeled with surprising precision.

From Science Daily Sep. 7, 2026

“He modeled what he believed in: that everyone had a right to a good life, to justice, to love… things happen, but you get back up and try again.”

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 6, 2026

“Juiced” was modeled along the lines of “Punk’d,” the Ashton Kutcher-hosted hidden-camera show that set up the unsuspecting for embarrassing moments, a prominent example of cruelty as entertainment.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 2, 2026

The data is based on information from advisory firm Oxford Economics, which modeled data center capex in 36 countries and territories and five regions.

From MarketWatch Sep. 2, 2026

It was part of Lyndon Johnson’s Great Society and was modeled after the Depression era’s Civilian Conservation Corps.

From "The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates" by Wes Moore

Its ruling Communist Party has used five-year plans modelled on those of the former Soviet Union to set its development targets and social priorities since the 1950s.

From Barron's Sep. 16, 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

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

“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

Researchers plan to use advanced computational modeling and artificial intelligence to design specialized biomolecules and predict how they will interact with silicon-rich waste.

From Science Daily Sep. 19, 2026

The UBS team is modeling that capital spending on data-center infrastructure will grow at least 30% annually throughout the next three years.

From MarketWatch Sep. 18, 2026

However, publicly available studies on its projects “are non-existent, leaving few anchors on which to pin modeling assumptions.”

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 18, 2026

Using observations of Venus together with radiative-transfer modeling, the scientists estimated how strongly the liquid inside the planet's cloud droplets would need to absorb ultraviolet and blue light to match what spacecraft and telescopes observe.

From Science Daily Sep. 13, 2026

Eastern private schools, modeling themselves after elite British institutions like Eton, taught rowing as a gentleman’s sport and fed their young-gentlemen oarsmen into the nation’s most prestigious universities, places like Harvard, Yale, and Princeton.

From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown

Swinney said it would "not be my intention" for people to travel further, with initial modelling showing the country divided into two east and west health boards.

From BBC Sep. 6, 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

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

References to the theories of Ptolemy and Copernicus are thus references to their mathematical modelling of the cosmos.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton




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