very model

Example Sentences

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While increased regulation will help, he says transparency poses a bigger challenge: "Transparency goes against the very model of discretion that allows many wealth management hubs to thrive."

From BBC • Apr. 12, 2024

Styles is known for a buzzing and energetic live presence — a very model of aerobic endurance — who commands a stage alongside his band.

From Salon • Dec. 26, 2022

Driver, paunchy and swaybacked, is the very model of a modern middle-aged professor, his intellectual curiosity muffled by a certain complacency.

From New York Times • Nov. 23, 2022

With a gloved hand, he snapped up the night-vision goggles on his ballistic helmet, looking like the very model of an Afghan soldier the U.S. had tried to help create to eliminate people like him.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 3, 2021

Professor Z. K. Matthews was the very model of the African intellectual.

From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela